"My definition of poor are those who need too much. Because those who need too much are never satisfied."

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Source : “Can Uruguay's Pauper President Be an International Role Model?” by Orion Jones, bigthink.com. 2017.

Jose Mujica

#Needs Quotes #Definitions Quotes #Too Much Quotes

“I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.”
“As a Black woman filmmaker I feel thatâ€™s my job: visibility. And my preference within that job is Black subjectivity. Meaning Iâ€™m interested in the lives of Black folk as the subject. Not the predicate, not the tangent.[These stories] deserve to be told. Not as sociology, not as spectacle, not as a singular event that happens every so often, but regularly and purposefully as truth and as art on an ongoing basis, as do the stories of all the women you love.”
“You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire.”

Source : Song: Biko
“In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.”
“The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.”
“Yankee Stadium is my favorite stadium; I'm not going to lie to you. There's a certain feel you get in Yankee Stadium.”
“Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from another world:-- "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you.”
“Businesses acting as businesses, not as charitable donors, are the most powerful force for addressing the pressing issues society face(s)”

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