"I want the great masses of my people to take a greater pride in their personal appearance and to give their hair proper attention."

-- Madam C. J. Walker

#Pride Quotes #Hair Quotes #People Quotes

“When I wrote the first [Bond novel] in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened... when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, [James Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard.”
“To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.”
“Pain, no matter how prolonged it seems to be, is just a short-lived thing that one day, in one way or another, we will overcome.”
“Simple ideas are easier to understand. Ideas that are easier to understand are repeated. Ideas that are repeated change the world.”
“Liberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations.”
“Reading old travel books or novels set in faraway places, spinning globes, unfolding maps, playing world music, eating in ethnic restaurants, meeting friends in cafes . . . all these things are part of never-ending travel practice, not unlike doing scales on a piano, shooting free-throws, or meditating.”
“No one's on at my time but infomercials.”
“The artist who chooses the difficult muse; or only has a difficult muse; should not be surprised with the results.”

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