Karen Blixen Quotes

'Do you know a cure for me?' 'Why yes,' he said, 'I know a cure for everything. Salt water.' 'Salt water?' I asked him. 'Yes,' he said, 'in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.'

Karen Blixen

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Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.

Parker Posey
- Why
- Know
- Doing
My grandfather started a school for the underprivileged in Chandigarh, and that is why we moved from Himachal to Chandigarh. It was a small school, where even I would teach while in school.

Yami Gautam
- School
- Why
- Small
In China, because Chinese is a tonal language, it can be kind of hard to follow people's emotional tracks. There was one moment where a woman I was interviewing just sort of burst into tears, and I can usually sort of tell when things are coming on, and in that moment, it was very unexpected.

Hailey Gates
- People
- Woman
- Emotional
In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

Wangari Maathai
- Women
- Food
- Water
When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

Ozwald Boateng
- Time
- Why
- Today
Cancer has taught me a lot of things. Maybe it is the best thing that has happened to me. I can't say right now, but maybe some years down the line, I would realise. When I was taking chemotherapy, there were a lot of elderly patients, and that would inspire me. I thought, 'If they can be cured, why can't I be?'

Yuvraj Singh
- Why
- Best
- Thought