Olsun Sertab Quotes & Sayings

African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves - how, as a writer, I find that African writers have always been the curators of our humanity on this continent. — Chris Abani

Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

I'll play for a couple of hours and then before you know it, it's time to go on stage. It takes away any nervousness and anxiety I might have about the big crowd out there. — Lights

Any actor who is being honest will admit there's always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It's impossible not to have that. — Jerry Ferrara

It is important for you to understand your purpose for living on planet earth — Sunday Adelaja

Taxes are not raised to carry on wars, but that wars are raised to carry on taxes — Thomas Paine

Faith cannot save you from the claims of reason, except insofar as it preserves and protects that wonderful, terrible time when reason, if only for a moment, lost its claim on you. — Christian Wiman

I'm rather inclined to liking people. — Aung San Suu Kyi

In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better. — Carlos Ghosn

I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities. — Carlos Mesa

Well?" she teased in turn. "What do you think?"
The gray eyes that finally lifted to hers were flaming, but instead of answering, he flicked his burning gaze down her length again. He hesitated, and then said abruptly, "I think that the dress fits you perfectly."
Lauren burst out laughing. "Don't ever let anyone tell you that you have a way with flattery, because you don't."
"Is that right?" he mocked, his eyes challenging. "In that case, I'll you exactly what I think: I think that you're exquisitely lovely, and that you have the fascinating ability to look like an extremely sexy, sophisticated young woman and an utterly angelic girl at one and the same time. And I wish to hell that we weren't trapped here with a hundred other people for the next few hours, because whenever I look at you I become...uncomfortably eager...to find out how you're going to feel in my arms tonight. — Judith McNaught

Almost all countries have natural dividing lines, and when ethnic and religious partition occurs in one country, it'll soon happen elsewhere. — Bashar Al-Assad

Our standard prescription for the know-nothing investor with a long-term time horizon is a no-load index fund. I think that works better than relying on your stock broker. The people who are telling you to do something else are all being paid by commissions or fees. The result is that while index fund investing is becoming more and more popular, by and large it's not the individual investors that are doing it. It's the institutions. — Charlie Munger

Youth is the spring-time of life. It is the time to acquire information, so that we may show it off in after years and paralyze people with what we know. — Edgar Wilson Nye