"Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere."

-- Harry Belafonte

#Wall Quotes #Wrecks Quotes #Oppression Quotes

“Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal but the exercise.”
“Every jacket I make has interior pockets big enough to store a book and a sandwich and a passport.”
“Being an actor you have a lot of expenses.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It's been rough for me trying to find my position in the struggle and where my voice is needed and helpful. You know, I grew up in Philadelphia, and Philadelphia has a really rough police-brutality history. I grew up in a neighborhood where it was very clear that the police were "them" and we were "us".”
“As with editing, I think my strength as a writer is structure. It's not a skill that's much discussed when we discuss fiction, or not as much as language or character development anyway, but it's the first thing I determine before I begin writing - not just books, but anything. I think I know how to pace a narrative well. I think I'm aware of repetition, that I try to create different kinds of sentences as often as I can. Those are all things I learned from magazine editing.”

Source : Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.
“There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.”
“I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.”
“One of the changes I'm driving within Nokia is to adopt what we call 'the challenger mindset.' Let's understand that we have to fight, we have to fight our way through the difficulties, we have to listen to consumers, we have to both deliver what they need and also have some creativity and insight and deliver what the don't yet know they need.”

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