"... When tiny, tiny things start happening a million times, it becomes a large thing. It lays down the foundation of a strong economic base. With women participating in building this economic base, it becomes the foundation for better social and economic future ..."

-- Muhammad Yunus

#Strong Quotes #Tiny Quotes #Poverty Quotes

“Donâ€™t use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I donâ€™t want you to be stuck with your own life. Itâ€™s too little.”
“I'm never going to starve myself for a part. I don't want little girls to be like, 'Oh, I want to look like Katniss, so I'm going to skip dinner.' That's something I was really conscious of during training, when you're trying to get your body to look exactly right. I was trying to get my body to look fit and strong-not thin and underfed.”
“The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Uh... what can I say? Made money. Given a launch pad for a working life. Set a precedent I had no interest in following. Created expectations that I was not cut-out to match. Disappointed virtually all of my readers subsequently. But I like what I've done, and I stand by it all.”
“Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big deal.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2016.
“One of the things I did during my 17 years as a psychiatric social worker was go around and find people with mental crutches, and every time I found one, I kicked those ***** crutches until they flew. You know what happened? Every single one of those people has been able to walk without the crutches better, in fact. Were they giving up anything intrinsically valuable? Just their irrational reliance upon superstitions and supernatural nonsense. Perhaps this sort of claptrap was good for the Stone Age, when people actually believed that if they prayed for rain they would get it.”
“People are increasingly concerned about unemployment, but Republicans have nothing to offer them.”
“The thing you are ripening toward is the fruit of your life. It will make you bright inside, no matter what you are outside. It is a shining thing.”

Source : Stewart Edward White, Elizabeth Calvert Grant White (1947). “With folded wings”

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