"I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded."

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Maxine Hong Kingston

#Ugly Quotes #May Quotes #Retarded Quotes

“Every successful competitive practice has victims. The more successful a new method of making and distributing a product, the more victims, the deeper the victims' injury”
“It's pretty strange because you have images of people in your head when you left, then you just think they're going to be the same when you come back, like time freezes. I have sisters and from the ages of 11 to 13 - it's a big change for girls.”
“I wondered if kicking him in the head would make the whole explanation pop out of his mouth in one chunk.”
“That is certainly the point: when the human species was born, on the African savanna, life was pretty good; we could live in harmony with the rest of nature, and that's what I've been calling Eden. The only technologies that humans devised for some 2 million years were fire and the hand ax. That's all. Eden didn't need anything more”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“There are people that appreciate the music for its musical value and there are people that will always think that it should be reserved as an expression for people who grew up with it.”
“Men fall in private long before they fall in public.”
“My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where I grew up.”
“If I had been egotistical about the movies, I have been brought back to earth.”

Source : "Not strictly commercial". Interview with Mary McNamara, articles.latimes.com. July 23, 2006.

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