"As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my mother said to me, Elizabeth, anyone who angers you conquers you."

-- Elizabeth Kenny

#Girl Quotes #Mother Quotes #One Day Quotes

“When your mother starts using the word "party" as a verb about her kid, that's absolutely crazy.”
“I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living.”
“This will be the day when we shall bring into full realization the dream of American democracy -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few....”
“I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn't want to take over someone else's cuisine. I wanted to start from scratch.”

Source : "René Redzepi: the outsider" by Sabine Durrant, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2010.
“Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.”
“I really don't want to produce artwork that does not have meaning beyond simple decorative values. I want to use public space to create a public voice, and a public consciousness about the presence of people who are, in fact, the majority of the population but who are not represented in any visual way. By telling their stories we are giving voice to the voiceless and visualizing the whole of the American story.”
“When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.”
“Either we stand united and agree to combat climate change or we will all stumble and fall and condemn humanity to a tragic future.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

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