"One of the things that people sense is that you are not doing this for self-glorification, you are doing it for the sake of others. The Dalai Lama has been in exile for so many years, yet the Chinese are running scared of him."

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Source : "Kathy Calvin | President/CEO of United Nations Foundation". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

Desmond Tutu

#Running Quotes #Self Quotes #Years Quotes

“I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 09, 2010
“The cauliflower soup sounds so good. And the broccoli-melt sandwich. I've never heard of such a thing.”
“I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.”
“I am the only man who can say he's been in Take That and at least two members of the Spice Girls.”
“Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the art of ruling.”

Source : Frank Chodorov (1959). “The Rise & Fall of Society”, p.4, Ludwig von Mises Institute
“My art in the last period has all been in small format, but my paintings have become even deeper and more spiritual, speaking truly through colour. Feeling that because of my illness I would not be able to paint very much longer, I worked like a man obsessed on these little 'Meditations' (a long series of small paintings he made during the last years of his life, with as main motif the schema of a face, ed.). And now I leave these small but, to me, important works to the future and to people who love art.”
“In The Last of Her Kind, Sigrid Nunez once again creates characters of such depth and situations of such vivid moral complexity that reading these pages is like living them. Only as I closed the book did I sadly realize that Georgette and Ann weren't my neighbors. But happily I can revisit them again, and again, in this beautiful and absorbing novel.”
“Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.”

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