Ardavan Afrakhteh Quotes

#1. I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.

Bel Powley

#2. As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

Julian Bond

#3. She leaned forward and opened her eyes wide. "Allow me to offer you some free advice - trade your gems away and keep your opinions to yourself.

Stephen Whitfield

#4. Openness to change is key to implementing new knowledge. That is why one who is indifferent to change is not a friend of knowledge.

Eraldo Banovac

#5. In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.

Kenneth Clark

#6. I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow them down to figure out the notes. At first I tried to imitate Red Garland, who was my favorite jazz pianist.

Donald Fagen

#7. I don't know many people who don't have somebody in their family who's a part of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. It's not like they're aliens or outsiders. This is family.

Cyndi Lauper

#8. ... yearn for halcyon days of yore".

John Green

#9. This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan guru: The world is absolutely perfect, including your own dissatisfaction with it, and everything you are trying to do to change it.

Stanislav Grof