"The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge."

-- Henry Louis Gates

#Tolerance Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Steps Quotes

“Sports are a metaphor for life.”
“I can't play any more. I can't hit the ball when I need to. I can't steal second when I need to. I can't go from first to third when I need to. I can't score from second when I need to. I have to quit.”
“I actually put peanut butter on my bagel. I really like peanut butter and I like to ruin the bagel. You know what's even crazier that I do sometimes? I do cinnamon raisin bagels with peanut butter. It is really, really out there.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“[O]pen platforms and experimental amateurs ... eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros. ... Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a good strategy. They're apt to take all the stuff that makes their products great and try to use technology to charge you extra for it, or prohibit it altogether.”
“Sometimes it's easier for me to do films about, and with, women, because I have more distance, I'm more lucid.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The law is a crude machine at best, and only spits out something approaching justice of its attendants are committed to justice. As lawyering has become less about doing right and more about doing what you can get away with, our standards of acceptable shenanigans-as-usual seem to be in a free fall.”
“The world today is experiencing a profound and rapid socio-cultural transformation. But the changes do not occur at a uniform pace, and the discrepancies in the change process have differentiated the various countries and regions of our planet.”

Source : Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”
“There are war-torn countries, people full of poverty, who still voted 60, 70 percent. If here in the United States of America, we voted at 60 percent, 70 percent, it would transform our politics.”

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