#lia

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality. ↗

— Mathieu Kerekou

#fatality #honour #humiliation #less #position

I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness. ↗

— Alex North

#combination #familiarity #hear #i #lack

It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory. ↗

— Douglass North

#brilliant #chess #economic #economic theory #first

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another. ↗

— Edward Norton

#clearly #familiar #genre #i #lot

It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true. ↗

— Ivor Novello

#am #argued #been #brilliant #british

A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia. ↗

— Phillip Noyce

#around #australia #barbed #barbed wire #collection

I no longer knew what it was like to feel Australian. ↗

— Phillip Noyce

#feel #i #knew #like #longer

Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on the west coast - and where 95 percent of Australians are able to live 95 percent of their lives without ever seeing an Aboriginal face. ↗

— Phillip Noyce

#aboriginal #australians #between #black #black and white

Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions. ↗

— Phillip Noyce

#australia #back #came #changed #conscription

I never call myself a singer, ever. I never will. I've always been really embarrassed about my voice. I've never been confident about it. I think it's a little bit better now than when I first started. There are people I admire who are genuinely brilliant singers and I know the difference between what they can do and what I can do. ↗

— Gary Numan

#admire #always #been #better #better now