"I think the United States and the secretary of State should be concerned about the poverty in this country - people without health insurance. The United States should stop being the empire and be concerned about other countries. You've got to be more worried about your own people."

-- Hugo Chavez

#Country Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.”
“Freedom to think requires not only freedom of expression but also freedom from the threat of orthodoxy and being outcast and ostracized.”
“I don't know if I want to be a big star though.”
“[T]he rare earth elements perplex us in our researches, baffle us in our speculations, and haunt us in our very dreams. They stretch like an unknown sea before us mocking, mystifying and murmuring strange revelations and possibilities.”
“I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.' Six months later Marc Benioff, finding out what NetSuite was doing, and kind of copied it.”
“I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'”

Source : "Getting Fired And How It Teaches You To Be A Better Parent" by Mika Brzezinski, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
“I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface.”

Source : "The Fighter: David O. Russell Interview". Interview with Tom Butler, www.ign.com. February 8, 2011.
“I'm not so much in the future as always in the present. The future always takes care of itself. What I do now with my video camera, it can only record what is happening now. I am celebrating reality and the essence of the moment. And that's the greatest challenge that I have.”

Source : "Jonas Mekas: Anthology Film Archives". Interview with Terence Teh, www.dazeddigital.com. April 27, 2011.

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