"In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one day, ask to have returned."

-- Beryl Markham

#People Quotes #Giving Quotes #Balance Quotes

“I'm a New Yorker, you know.”
“My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I do like to dress up and look nice, and I'm inspired by people who do the same - people who express themselves through how they dress.”

Source : "Q&A: Five Questions for Skylar Astin". Interview with Nic Screws, www.esquire.com. April 17, 2013.
“These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.”
“Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.”
“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
“If you paid me for work," continued Max, whose rhetoric was more sophisticated than you might expect from a man with food in his beard, "I wouldn't have to feel worthless. There's not law says old people have to feel worthless all the while, you know. You paid me, I'd have some dignity." Now it was Mile's turn to nod and smile agreeably. "I think the dignity ship set sail a long time ago, Dad.”
“People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.”

Source : "Literally speaking" by Simon Barrow, www.theguardian.com. December 25, 2007.

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