Isabel dos Santos quotes

Isabel dos Santos quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“If you are hardworking and determined, you will make it and that's the bottom line. I don't believe in an easy way through.”
-- Isabel dos Santos

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“Ive had business sense since I was very young. I sold chicken eggs when I was six.”
-- Isabel dos Santos

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“Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.275, Simon and Schuster
“I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.”
“I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.”
“The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.”
“Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.”
“Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.”
“Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.”
“It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.”
“I am officially Jewish, but Iâ€™m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.”
“How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?”

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