"Victory awaits him who has everything in order - luck, people call it."

-- Roald Amundsen

#Order Quotes #People Quotes #Luck Quotes

“Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile to literary culture.”

Source : Hinton Rowan Helper (1857). “The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it”, p.406
“I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer.”
“People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.”
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”

Source : Assata Shakur (2016). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.151, Zed Books Ltd.
“I never really thought I wanted to become a movie star.”
“I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk away from show business. But I don't want to walk away empty-handed.”
“I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other.”

Source : Interview with Richie Unterberger, www.furious.com. January 2001.
“Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off.”

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