Scilla Elworthy Quotes

Wherever there is injustice, there is anger, and anger is like gasoline - if you spray it around and somebody lights a matchstick, you have an inferno. But anger inside an engine is powerful: it can drive us forward and can get us through dreadful moments and give us power. I learnt this with my discussions with nuclear policy makers.

Scilla Elworthy

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PowerAngerDriveForwardPowerful

By now, it seems as if everyone has already read Thomas L. Friedman's 'The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.' It changed the way we think about global business, competitiveness and the implication for far-flung economies, governments, education and more.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

EducationBusinessHistoryWorldWay

I write a number of screenplays, and I've never really come up with a part for a movie star.

Andrew Dominik

NeverWriteUpStarComeMovie Star

My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.

Andre Dubus III

MotherImaginationDinnerResilience

When I was twelve, I heard about the National Theater School, and I told my parents, 'That's what I want to do.' And that was it.

Ana de Armas

SchoolParentsWantTheaterNational

I'll always have a chip on my shoulder until I hang my shoes up. No matter how long I play this game, the chip on my shoulder will always be there. That won't change.

Trae Young

ChangeShoesGameLongPlayMatter

Our nation has invested millions of dollars in building safe, humane and, I may say, air-conditioned facilities to detain and prosecute the detainees at Guantanamo.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

BuildingSayNationSafeMayOur

Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals.

Marvin Harris

GivingRiseDirtyAnimalsNothing

One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.

Joseph O'Neill

GreatIdentityStartYouImmigrant

You have an hour and a half or two hours - maybe two and a half hours - in a movie, and it has to be a self-contained three-act structure. It's like a rock and roll song. Certain things have to happen for it to be a toe-tapper and get people excited, leaving the theater.

Jon Favreau

PeopleSongRock And RollYouRock

The difference between equity and equality is that equality is everyone get the same thing and equity is everyone get the things they deserve.

DeRay Mckesson

EqualityDeserveEquityDifference

Too many bands record an album and feel, 'Well, this is okay,' but after a time, they grow to not like it.

Brian Fallon

TimeGrowFeelOkayWellLike

I'm in great shape, back-in-my-football-days shape. I've worked hard to get to this point.

Brian Jordan

GreatHardPointShapeGetWorked

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