Rabih Alameddine When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA. – Rabih Alameddine Boarding Quotes Civil Quotes England Quotes Lebanese Quotes School Quotes Shipped Quotes Started Quotes Ucla Quotes War Quotes In the summer of 1988, my father took me up to look at the remains of our home, the dream house that he’d built. It was my first time since our family left four years earlier. Political and obscene graffiti covered the half-torn walls. There was no ceiling and surprisingly no floor: the parquet, the stone, the marble, all looted. I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother’s books.
Ricky Schroder I never cared about money because I never needed money, you know what I mean? When I was 12 to 17 I never saw any of the money, so the money never motivated me. – Ricky Schroder
IndependenceRyszard Kapuscinski The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise. – Ryszard Kapuscinski
Jimmy Butler I wanna be that glue guy: I want to be a guy my team and my coach can count on. That’s what I want to be. – Jimmy Butler
Ray Davies I still like to keep tapes of the few minutes before the final take, things that happen before the session. Maybe it’s superstitious, but I believe if I had done things differently – if I had walked around the studio or gone out – it wouldn’t have turned out that way. – Ray Davies
Paul Marciano We had just recently moved to California from Italy, and while we were driving around, we saw a billboard ad for McDonald’s on Olympic Boulevard in Los Angeles. The word ‘guess’ was in the ad, and my brother decided that that would be the name of our company! – Paul Marciano
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