"Always live your life with your biography in mind," Dad was fond of saying. "Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason, but at the very least you will be living grandly."

-- Marisha Pessl

#Dad Quotes #Live Your Life Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I have a problem with a lot of men's fragrances because they are very strong. Somebody somewhere thinks that masculine means powerful smells, and I find them overbearing and not very pleasant.”
“A lot of girls ask for advice on how to get into acting, and I'm kind of the worst person to ask, because it just kind of fell in my lap... I was just in the right place at the right time.”

Source : Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 8, 2002.
“Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred.”

Source : Vandana Shiva (2005). “Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace”, p.11, Zed Books
“The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.”
“Poetry in motion walking by my side, her lovely locomotion keeps my eyes open wide.”
“I think I'm a mama's boy who wanted to be a hockey player, who failed, and had to become a singer. I think that I'm a generous, impatient, kind, jerk.”
“For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.”

Source : Walter Rodney (2012). “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa”, p.131, Fahamu/Pambazuka
“I want women -- and men -- to feel empowered by a deeper and more psychotic part of themselves. The part they're always trying desperately to hide. I want that to become something that they cherish.”

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