"All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture."

-- Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#Mean Quotes #Doe Quotes #Culture Quotes

“One can never be too rich or too thin' is an aphorism attributed to the Duchess of Windsor. Being both rich and thin is a difficult enterprise, indeed almost unprecedented as an ideal. Into the paradoxical gap between the capacity to spend money and the need to eat less steps a brilliant solution: 'light' food. In buying 'light' food we can pay more for what costs less to produce in the first place ...”

Source : Margaret Visser (2010). “Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea”, p.109, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.”
“It's a reality of art that the fewer lines you get, the harder it is. Cartooning is actually harder than realism. You have less to work with. It's like trying to build a house-if you have unlimited resources, you're in much better shape than if you get two bricks, a hammer, and a bent nail.”
“I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf. (When asked whether he preferred grass or Astroturf”
“Google understood that if you're just a search engine, people assume you're a very, very good search engine.”
“If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway.”
“I really worked at becoming more assertive, and now none of my friends talk to me.”

Source : Wendy Wasserstein (2005). “Sloth: The Seven Deadly Sins”, p.15, Oxford University Press
“As a journalist, I would talk to writers, directors, creative people, and discover that for an awful lot of them, the moment they became successful, that was all they were allowed to do. So you end up talking to the bestselling science-fiction author who wrote a historical-fiction novel that everybody loved, but no one would publish.”

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