"Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair."

-- Elie Wiesel

#Life Quotes #Despair Quotes #Remember Quotes

“In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director who can lead the ship. That's how we look at business. Everybody has a great idea for a start-up, and so do their relatives, and they tell me, 'You gotta build it.' I say, 'I have to believe in it.'”
“I find impressionists slightly annoying, really.”
“I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.”
“All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'”

Source : Sonia Sanchez, Joyce Ann Joyce (2007). “Conversations with Sonia Sanchez”, Univ Pr of Mississippi
“The American appetite for loneliness impressed me, and there was something about this solitude that freed conversation. One night at a bar, I met a man, and within five minutes he explained that he had just been released from prison. Another drinker told me that his wife had passed away, and he had recently suffered a heart attack, and now he hoped that he would die within the year. I learned that there's no reliable small talk in America; at any moment a conversation can become personal.”

Source : "Go West". www.newyorker.com. April 19, 2010.
“You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing.”
“Now you can begin to see quite transparently that nothing purchased life is one of argument, If other people don't agree with you you're in big trouble. How far would you get in your work if nobody agreed that what you were doing had value?”
“Experience conclusively shows that index-fund buyers are likely to obtain results exceeding those of the typical fund manager, whose large advisory fees and substantial portfolio turnover tend to reduce investment yields. Many people will find the guarantee of playing the stock-market game at par every round a very attractive one. The index fund is a sensible, serviceable method for obtaining the market's rate of return with absolutely no effort and minimal expense.”

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