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Mijn vader houdt van jazz en heeft een uitgebreide verzameling platen en banden waarvan hij vroeger als hij uit zijn werk kwam kon genieten. Hij kon met een rothumeur binnenkomen, maar als hij Dexter Gordon had opgezet en zichzelf een wodkacocktail had ingeschonken, ebde zijn stress snel weg en werd alles ‘te gek, jongen, gewoon te gek.’ Op het moment dat de naald op de plaat neerdaalde, maakt hij zijn das los en werd hij iemand anders dan degene die hij daarvoor was geweest, een conservatieve ingenieur met in zijn borstzakje een stel ibm-pennen met het opschrift denk na. ↗


— David Sedaris


#jazz #platen #family

A man can lead a reasonably full life without a family, a fixed local residence, or a religious affiliation, but if he is stateless he is nothing. He has no rights, no security, and little opportunity for a useful career. There is no salvation on earth outside the framework of an organized state. ↗


— Joseph Reese Strayer


#rights #salvation #state #family

Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the kingdom and was ceded to the republic and then to the state when we achieved statehood. ↗


— Neil Abercrombie


#achieved #belonged #ceded #hawaii #here

The timing of this sudden interest in the plight of Iraqi women cannot be overemphasized. For decades, many Iraqi women activists in the US and UK had tried to raise awareness about the systematic abuse of human and women's rights under Saddam Hussein, the atrocities linked to the Anfal campaign against the Kurds, and the impact of economic sanctions on women and families. . . . 'We wrote so many letters and we organized many events. . . . They did not want to know. They were just not interested. It was only in the run-up to the [2003] invasion that the governments started to care about the suffering of Iraqi women. ↗


— Nadje Al-Ali


#iraq #state #uk #us #women

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt. ↗


— Charles M. Schulz


#chocolate #hurt #little #love #need

I am somebody's son, and I know a guy I call "Dad." Those two things are unrelated.
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— Jarod Kintz


#family #father #funny #humor #related

Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt. ↗


— Judith Olney


#food #food

Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the world's perfect food. ↗


— Michael Levine


#food

Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history. ↗


— Ralph Abernathy


#change #christians #greatest #history #jesus

I love Tina Turner. I'm one of Tina Turner's biggest fans. Tina Turner was a big influence on me to become a singer. A role model and in a way she gave me back my confidence in choosing my material. ↗


— Bonnie Tyler


#become #big #big influence #biggest #choosing






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