Read quote“In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war.”
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Read quote“When we released open source, it was sort of a secret weapon.”
Read quote“somebody has to be there and dig out the basic fundamental facts”
Read quote“Well, if there is no freedom, what good is money?”
Read quote“I want to win a Grammy and say ‘thank you’ in Korean.”
Read quote“Pahlawan yang sebenarnya ialah pahlawan yang berpayung di bawah kebenaran.”
Read quote“التعليم كالماء والهواء حق لكل مواطن”
Read quote“I would never use my femininity to get a story that a man could not get.”
Read quote“I fought for a radical cinema, and I continued all my life.”
Read quote“Personality comes to its own when one, through such increasing consciousness, comes to discover the central fact, which commands the wide complexity of life.”
Read quote“I was proud of the show and so many things that we accomplished with it.”
Read quote“I carve as a Jamaican for Jamaica, trying to understand our problems and living near to the heart of our people.”
Read quote“I don’t want to lose who people fell in love with. I am keeping it King Kaka, I am not here for the wave.”
Read quote“Why me? I keep asking myself that question, and I shake my head. Why did my dream come true when so many other people worked and tried just as hard, and it didn’t happen for them?”
Read quote“O inventamos o erramos.”
Read quote“It’s guilt we must escape from, not God.”
Read quote“I looked about me — my soul was stung by the sufferings of humanity.”
Read quote“I call African philosophy a set of texts: the set, precisely, of texts written by Africans and described by their authors themselves as ‘philosophical’.”
Read quote“I cannot be controlled.”
Read quote“We didn't want to take over Texaco. They told us they were leaving. We had no choice.”