"I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistakes I made would be magnified because I was the only black man out there... I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect."

-- Jackie Robinson

#Respect Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Loneliness Quotes

“I shave my legs twice a week. It's hard the first time you do it. But I'm very lazy. For a team photo in December I just did the fronts.”

Source : "This much I know: David Millar". Interview with Martin Love, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2011.
“The moment I think about past letdowns or future hypotheticals, I mentally put myself on shaky ground. If I clear my mind of chatter, I can succeed, just like I did in 2006.”
“I've just looked for ideas and great characters that I relate to and that I think I can offer something to the audience, and I no longer look at them as experiments or genre exercises at all.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I wish airplanes were more like elementary school with someone up front telling everyone to sit down and shut up.”
“Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.”
“Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.”
“I think America and Britain have a different culture from France. They discovered marketing and consumerism before France.”

Source : "The Saturday interview: Dukan diet creator Pierre Dukan". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. January 06, 2012.
“Through her, in microcosm, the wide earth sobbed. The starglobe sank in her; the colours faded. The death-dew rose and the wild birds in her breast climbed to her throat and gathered songless, hovering, all tumult, wing to wing, so ardent for those climes where all things end.”

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