"To understand history,' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells."

-- Arundhati Roy

#Wall Quotes #Book Quotes #Smell Quotes

“Usually being a young actor, you've got to go through certain levels of hierarchy, going through bit parts and extra roles and then kind of progressing up the food chain and having the size of your roles grow in that sense.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“We should be cultivating our female workers. The truth of the matter is that women just see problems and solutions differently, and that's valuable.”

Source : "Meet Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (and Take Her Work Advice)". Interview with Cindi Leive, www.glamour.com. March 11, 2014.
“Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.”

Source : "Science is Not Enough" by Vannevar Bush, Ch. X, (p. 191), 1967.
“I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.”

Source : "Daniel Radcliffe: a cool nerd" by Anita Singh, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 4, 2009.
“I'd rather come back with a few transcendent memories than an album of snapshots.”

Source : "Jack Holmes and His Friend". Book by Edmund White, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2012.
“Traffic was very, very free. It was great.”
“I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.”
“Of course you can more easily recognise the outsiders because they have a different skin color. But let us take for instance the relationship between the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant majority in America and the negroes. What is important here is that the negroes were the descendants from slaves and were excluded from power, while the white majority kept them at bay, kept them down, kept them where they are. If the negroes in the future became assimilated and acquired equal power access, if there were a black president, then many of these things would change.”

Source : Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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