"I was always face to face with total futility and powerlessness."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Vanessa Veselka

#Futility Quotes #Powerlessness Quotes

“If you are worshipping false gods-such as football, baseball, gold, tennis, or money or technology or automobiles or houses or gold or silver-and you can tell what a man worships by what he does on Sunday-repent and start worshipping the true and living God, the maker of heaven and earth and all things that in them are.”
“I was used to hanging out late after playing a gig - you mix adrenaline with alcohol and you can stay up all night.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“When I was four I thought everything in TV was just TV, then I was five and Ma unlied about lots of it being pictures of real and Outside being totally real. Now Iâ€™m in Outside but it turns out lots of it isnâ€™t real at all.”

Source : Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.194, Pan Macmillan
“Of course I am very proud of being a Tory. Yes, in my head and in my heart I regard myself as a Tory. As I have said, I was born that way; I believe it is congenital. I am unable to change it. That is how I see the world... is the most un-Tory thing that can be conceived.”
“An 'unintended pregnancy' could be a wonderful surprise, not planned but welcome. Why should the government be in the business of 'preventing' a surprising but welcome pregnancy”
“I am at war with the obvious.”

Source : William Eggleston, Gunilla Knape, Hasselblad Center (1999). “William Eggleston”
“Directing music videos, especially ones that are concept/narrative driven is challenging in itself, but Directing a music video within a digital video environment is even more difficult.”
“You've got to try a little kindness, yes show a little kindness Just shine your light for everyone to see. And if you try a little kindness, Then you'll overlook the blindness Of narrow-minded people on the narrow-minded streets.”

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