“I’m asking you to believe in yourselves. I’m asking you to stop settling for the world as it is, and to help us make the world as it should be.”

— Michelle Obama

2000s, A Challenge to Overcome (November 2007)

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lawyer, writer, wife of Barack Obama and former First Lady … 1964

Diana Wynne Jones book The Tough Guide To Fantasyland

Source: The Tough Guide to Fantasyland

““Now I’m going to make you angry again.”
“Really?” I asked, drily. “Aren’t you getting tired of that?””

Ann Leckie book Ancillary Justice

Source: Ancillary Justice (2013), Chapter 15 (p. 232)

“I don’t even know what an atheist is. When people ask me if I’m an atheist, I have to ask them what they mean. What is it that I’m supposed to not believe in? Until you can answer that question I can’t tell you whether I’m an atheist, and the question doesn’t arise. […] I don’t see how one can be an agnostic when one doesn’t know what it is that one is supposed to believe in, or reject.”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist

Science in the Dock (2011), 2, Chomsky.info, March 1, 2006, August 16, 2011 http://www.chomsky.info/debates/20060301.htm,
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“I’m really willing to try to believe you’re not crazy, but you gotta help me a little, you know?”

Tim Powers book Last Call

Source: Last Call (1992), Chapter 37 (p. 374)

“Whatever the director asks me to do, I will do and make him happy. I’m a fool.”

Brigitte Lin (1954) Taiwanese actress

As quoted in "Brigitte Lin: ‘In All My Movies, There Is Something of Myself’" in Film Doo (21 May 2018) https://www.fareastfilm.com/eng/archive/catalogue/2018/intervista-con-brigitte-lin/?IDLYT=31711

“Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn’t care, I finally answer, and I know I’m right. It’s like I’ve been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

“You [South Korean women] should be ashamed of yourselves. Why are you making such a fuss about menstruating when the nation’s birthrate is the lowest in the world?”

Sung Jae-gi (1967–2013) South Korean masculism activist

Quoted in: " Menstrual leave ― an entitlement men reject http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=104&oid=040&aid=0000134179, The Korea Times, 2012.10.30

“Our whole life we’ve lived in a world of softened edges and easy decisions. All except once. One time, when someone had to look at the world through adult eyes and even the grown-ups who survived the crash with us failed the test. Someone had to look at the world as it was, and make the hard decisions that were necessary—not to romanticize, not to retreat into illusions. You did it then. I’m asking you to do it again. See what’s really going on here. See what’s real.”

Karl Schroeder (1962) Author. Technology consultant

Source: Lady of Mazes (2005), Chapter 24 (p. 265).

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

“You should stop asking your politicians how they’re gonna do it.”

Rahul Gandhi (1970) Indian politician

Firstpost, First Post http://www.firstpost.com/india/dont-us-politicians-ask-yourself-what-you-can-do-for-india-rahul-606481.html Gujarat Congress http://gujaratcongress.org/english/2013/02/rahul-gandhi-urges-youth-to-contribute-to-india%E2%80%99s-growth/ Rahul Gandhi http://my.fakingnews.firstpost.com/politics/inspiration-behind-rahul-gandhis-famous-quotes-5528

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