"The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like."

-- Ben Okri

#Past Quotes #Together Quotes #Jazz Quotes

“If there's anything to be said in a broad way about different audiences it's that I live in a major city, and those themes of isolation, protectiveness, loneliness tend to resonate with other people in major cities. In a sleepier village, where people are married with their children, me standing up and saying, "This marriage idea is a funny old convention that we invented" - various things that are deconstructions of the norms of a culture - if people have already made decisions like that, they're more inclined to say "Please, stop talking about our marriages, 'cause we're here now."”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“And that's just it, isn't it? That's how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies, it never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Apr 10, 2014
“My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.”
“It is in the ordinances of the temple that we are placed under covenant to Himâ€¦.[If] we will enter into our covenants without reservation or apology, the Lord will protect us. We will receive inspiration sufficient for the challenges of life.”
“The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.”
“I felt like if I just gave my heart to what I was doing, I would automatically be a star.”
“There's a fundamental difference between people who want to see the Internet and say - 'Let's lobotomize and censor parts of it because we need to control it' - Â and those like us who see the Internet as a method of growing the economy and innovating in front of the world. And we have to actually reconcile those two positions. And we believe that it is much better to protect this crown jewel of civilization, which is the ability for us to communicate and express our ideas freely, than to try to lobotomize it.”
“It is hard to find something where you can go off as much as I do in stand-up, but I think stand-up allows me that freedom where you can really go off and have a good time.”

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