"Any historical narrative is a bundle of silences."

-- Michel-Rolph Trouillot

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“Well, yeah! Now they're considered golden oldies, which is awesome. I was watching Little Women recently, and I didn't want to get up for fear of missing something. And Heathers is like my own Rocky Horror Picture Show; I recite the lines when it's on. It may seem odd, but I think it's because they're really good movies.”
“Cavalli is all about being a strong woman - being sexy and powerful. Which is how we'd like to feel, all of the time! The clothes are very strong and sexy - quite Amazonian. And you feel like that yourself when you're wearing the clothes.”

Source : "Georgia Jagger's Beauty Secrets". Interview with Lisa Niven, www.vogue.co.uk. March 28, 2013.
“Fortune favors the audacious.”
“Most of our parents wanted the best for us, I knew, but we also wanted the best for them.”
“I have a strong belief that there is a god or a higher power. I think that if you have a strong belief in that, then you won't feel alone in life and you will feel you can get through anything.”

Source : "Alana Stewart: Actress And Former Model Talks Spirituality And Staying Vibrant At 67". Interview with Shelley Emling, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2012.
“Money is a public good; as such, it lends itself to private exploitation.”

Source : Charles P. Kindleberger (2000). “Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises”, Wiley
“We live on the flat, on the level, and yet - and so - we aspire. Groundlings, we can sometimes reach as far as the gods. Some soar with art, others with religion; most with love. But when we soar, we can also crash. There are few soft landings. We may find ourselves bouncing across the ground with leg-fracting force, dragged towards some foreign railway line. Every love story is a potential grief story. If not at first, then later. If not for one, then for the other. Sometimes, for both.”
“The elimination of the barbaric terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is good news for the world.”

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