"So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids."

-- Todd Gitlin

#People Quotes #Use Quotes #Culture Quotes

“The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of sleep. Even when awake it is a victim of its own ill-adjustment, of disease, of age, of external suggestion, of nature's compulsions; it doubts its own sensations and trusts only in instruments and averages.”
“hindsight is not a strategy.”
“If you have the winning cards, why cheat?”

Source : "Good Morning America", June 1991.
“I've never been an all-black girl. I like pinks and blues and greens. If you come over to my closet, you'll be able to find a rainbow of things to wear.”
“People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible.”
“The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers .”
“No person, I think, ever saw a herd of buffalo, of which a few were fat and the great majority lean. No person ever saw a flock of birds, of which two or three were swimming in grease, and the others all skin and bone.”
“No matter how long you spend at creation, you're always a student.”

Source : Source: www.sfsignal.com

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