"I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine, I'm more interested in people."

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Source : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 20, 2010.

Ali Hewson

#People Quotes #Shining Quotes #Sparkle Quotes

“I'm not someone who likes to be in the whole Hollywood tabloids.”
“[On being first black woman to earn a PhD in economics and first black woman admitted to Pennsylvania bar:] I never looked for anybody to hold the door open for me. I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down: because I knocked all of them down.”
“You have a very precisely defined goal and you build a machine that's superhuman in its capabilities for achieving goals. If it turns out that the subsequent behavior of the robot in achieving that goal was not what you want, you have a real problem.”
“Maybe it's just in America, but it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. You're considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.”
“Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith.”

Source : "No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam". Book by Reza Aslan, 2005.
“It should be borne in mind that there is nothing more difficult to arrange, more doubtful of success, and more dangerous to carry through than initiating changes. The innovator makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who would prosper under the new. Their support is lukewarm ... partly because men are generally incredulous, never really trusting new things unless they have tested them by experience.”
“We are fat and sick and dying because we have handed a basic, fundamental and intimate function of life over to corporations. We choose to value our nourishment so little that we entrust it to strangers. This is insanity. Feed yourselves. Feed your loved ones. And for God's sake feed your children.”
“How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull.”

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