"My function is not to reassure people. I want to make them uncomfortable. To send them out of the place arguing and talking."

-- Ewan MacColl

#Talking Quotes #People Quotes #Want Quotes

“It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through the heat, stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial.”

Source : "Black History Is American History" by Rep. Yvette D. Clarke, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2010.
“I remember in 1980 or 1981 looking at a list of people who had made a lot of money in the computer industry and thinking, Wow, that's amazing. But I never thought I'd be on that list. It's clear I was wrong. I'm on the list, at least temporarily.”
“Anticipated rents, and bills unpaid, Force many a shining youth into the shade, Not to redeem his time, but his estate, And play the fool, but at the cheaper rate.”
“We were both [ with Russel Crowe] hand-plucked to do [The Quick and the Death]. He had done Romper Stomper and I had done Gilbert Grape and so we were hand- plucked to do this big budget film. So we were both very bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.”
“I probably could have gone in depth about a lot of things, but then the album would've been longer. You can't have a short album when you're talking about suicide and cocaine. That's not going to be a short album.”
“The great thing about media now is that you have 360 degrees worth of opinions and can find whatever you want and tune out whatever you want.”

Source : "The Chat House with Michael Wilbon". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2010.
“What I'm trying to do is be as honest as I can, and I don't normally do that.”

Source : "GM Bruce Allen says Redskins have 'no gaping holes' going into this week's NFL draft", www.foxnews.com. May 7, 2014.
“From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen.”

Source : Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”

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