"But I think that Australians have a sort of independence, and I think that, rightly or wrongly, they tend to make their own decisions as to how a thing has gone. Pioneers are apt to be like that. I think that it's not a bad idea. You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself."

-- Joan Sutherland

#Women Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“This is truth: When you sacrifice your life, you must make fullest use of your weaponry. It is false not to do so, and to die with a weapon as yet undrawn.”
“Men arenâ€™t attracted to me by my mind. Theyâ€™re attracted by what I donâ€™t mind.”
“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.”
“As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional”
“Travel not only stirs the blood. . . It also gives strength to the spirit.”
“We not only grew up on Be-Bop; Be-Bop raised us. For my generation, Be-Bop came on like a light bulb going flash behind the eyes.For us, it was not only an intellectual movement, but a way of life. We walked, dressed, and rapped Be-Bop.”

Source : Ishmael Reed (1995). “Airing Dirty Laundry”, Perseus Books
“I was a big fan of Jean-Claude Van-Damme growing up, and I always wanted to be a martial artist 'cause of him.”
“I heard somebody say, 'Where's (Nelson) Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead. Because Saddam killed all the Mandelas. --George W. Bush, on the former South African president, who is still very much alive, Washington, D.C., Sept. 20, 2007”

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