Other countries around the world make employees and retirees first in the priority. For example, in Mexico, the bankruptcy laws say if a company wants to go bankrupt… obligations to employees and retirees will have a first priority. That has an effect on every negotiation that takes place with every company in Mexico. Elizabeth Warren Read Quote
All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel… and that’s what I’ve been doing all my life. Count Basie Read Quote
Educated women armed with computers have defeated extremists by denying them a monopoly to define cultural identity and interpret religious texts. No extremist can say that women are inferior to men without being made a laughingstock on Al Jazeera. Islam insisted on equality between everyone. Fatema Mernissi Read Quote
I never really understood the game until I saw Cruyff’s Barcelona play. The first time that happened it opened up a new world to me. I began to understand that football was a collective thing, and that association between players meant you could keep the ball the whole game. Quique Setien Read Quote
And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless. Gary Numan Read Quote
I don’t have very many little fetishes, but the one I do have is that I like a particular mug to drink out of. It’s just a small china cup, and I get very upset if my husband moves it. Aminatta Forna Read Quote
Every time a Hollywood director shoots a film about Africa that features a Western protagonist, I shake my head – because Africans, real people though we may be, are used as props in the West’s fantasy of itself. Uzodinma Iweala Read Quote
