"The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it."

-- Milan Kundera

#Voice Quotes #Return Quotes #Calling Quotes

“I want to reclaim who I am.”

Source : Interview With Matt Lauer, www.nbcnews.com. June 29, 2010.
“Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that. They want a woman they can dominate, but then they hate her for being weak. It's an ambivalence that goes back to a man's relationship with his mother. Source of his life, center of his universe, object of both his fear and his love.”
“I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas and the ever-changing seasons that define the face of our native land.”

Source : Thabo Mbeki (1998). “Africa: the time has come : selected speeches”
“Every 30 seconds a patient dies from diseases that could be treated with tissue replacement,”
“I think we want to make the sport bigger and better and leave a good legacy for the next generation that comes through.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.”
“I am different. Let this not upset you”

Source : Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.3, Princeton University Press
“The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more about curators than about the state of painting today.”

Source : Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press

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