"American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important."

-- Marcus Buckingham

#Hero Quotes #People Quotes #Important Quotes

“Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.”
“I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point, after the original Animals had broken up.”
“The Italians were eating with forks when the French were still eating each other.”
“The fragile art of existenceIs kept alive by sheer persistenceThe fragile art of existence.No time for self-pityNo time for dwelling on what should have beenBut is yet to be.”
“We must have the hope to be able to succeed.”
“As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there for a long time. I've been working on being able to let things go. I don't think I ever want to buy property again.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“Manhattan cabs are born old.”

Source : Jean Shepherd (2010). “The Ferrari in the Bedroom”, p.78, Broadway Books
“Femininity itself has become a brand, a narrow and shrinking formula of commoditised identity which can be sold back to women who have become alienated from their own power as living, loving, labouring beings.”

Source : Laurie Penny (2011). “Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism”, p.11, John Hunt Publishing

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