"Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they must be physically segregated every moment of the day and night."

-- James Buchan

#Night Quotes #Men Quotes #Self Quotes

“Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.”
“There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization's overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow...It goes without saying that no company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it...”
“One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.”
“We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.”

Source : Edward W. Said (2007). “The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After”, p.233, Vintage
“Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.”
“Oh, I've discarded a great many [poems]. And occasionally I've discarded and then resurrected. I would find a crumpled yellow ball of paper in the wastebasket, in the morning, and open it to see what the hell I'd been up to; and occasionally it was something that needed only a very slight change to be brought off, which I'd missed the day before.”
“I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music.”

Source : "Stefon Harris thinks creativity is overrated". Interview with Matthew Borlik and Michael J. West, www.avclub.com. November 12, 2009.
“It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment.”

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