"Iâ€™ve been a con artist since I was 16 and trying to get my dad to buy me a car. I never succeeded, but I learnt a lot of tactics."

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Matt Bomer

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“There are forces at work you do not perceive. I weave a delicate strategy which rash actions could rend. Patience , please.”

Source : "The Infinity Gauntlet". Comic book, Issue 3: Preparations for War, 1991.
“Stories were primarily verbal to begin with. Before there were cave paintings, stories were told over generations. We tell each other thousands of stories in the course of everyday life.”
“Today China is a first world economy, in terms of development. The U.S. may still be in first in GDP but it is a broken economy in reality.”

Source : "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.
“The point is that profound but contradictory ideas may exist side by side, if they are constructed from different materials and methods. and have different purposes. Each tells us something important about where we stand in the universe, and it is foolish to insist that they must despise each other.”
“I was proud, excited and a little frightened. It was all taking off so quicklyâ€¦the more successful the boys were, the further away from me John felt. I was getting used to being a mum, but most of the time I felt like a single parentâ€¦it was hard not to feel frustrated with being stuck at home. I loved Julian, but I knew that if I hadnâ€™t had him I could have seen much more of John and that was hardâ€¦I felt shut off from the life he was living. After years at his side, I was excluded, just as it was all happening.”
“I don't belive Oprah's sexual abuse stories, I mean who would take a black girl when there are plenty of white?”
“To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.”
“In my view, the Western model of influencing the development of third world countries is doomed to failure. The West does not understand how to deal with states that no longer have any authority and are threatened by dissolution. Their efforts failed in Iraq as well as Afghanistan. They are simply not capable of promoting the indigenous economy. Many billions of dollars flooded into Afghanistan, but without any significant effect.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

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