"I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid."

-- Roberto Cavalli

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“But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account whatâ€™s going on in his heart and mind.”
“If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is.”

Source : Rebecca Stead (2012). “Liar & Spy”, p.38, Wendy Lamb Books
“The most powerful teaching a child will ever receive will come from concerned and righteous fathers and mothers.”
“Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in order to live; we eat because we are hungry. Desire has no further intentions behind it... it is a good will.”
“In all modesty, my summing up of 1955-6 and 1956-7 must be that no club in the country could live with Manchester United.”
“Despite long-standing claims by elites that Blacks, women, Latinos, and other similarly derogated groups in the United States remain incapable of producing the type of interpretive, analytical thought that is labeled theory in the West, powerful knowledges of resistance that toppled former social structures of social inequality repudiate this view. Members of these groups do in fact theorize, and our critical social theory has been central to our political empowerment and search for justice.”

Source : Patricia Hill Collins (1998). “Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice”, p.16, U of Minnesota Press
“The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we might fix the results of analysis in our minds.”
“A lot of people think I live in a soul bubble.”

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