"I think history has less of an impact on current times than the stories that we tell ourselves about that history [do]."

-- Annie Leonard

#Thinking Quotes #Impact Quotes #Stories Quotes

“It sounds corny, but I've promised my inner child that never again will I ever abandon myself for anything or anyone else again.”
“I've been taking pictures since I was probably 16. I'm 54, and I can't believe how excited I am.”
“I started trying to do my own music at home, and I was like, 'You know what, I can play the guitar, sort of. And I can do these things, sort of. And I can make these crazy noises on my computer, sort of. But I need a ridiculously good drummer. I need someone to help me with string arrangements.”

Source : "Ex-'Blue's Clues' host Steve Burns an indie rocker at heart" by Joe Dangelo, www.mtv.com. April 29, 2002.
“Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.”
“I pride myself on having a journalistic remove.”
“I vowed I wouldn't ever let anyone destroy me again. I was going to work at it every day, so hard that I would be the toughest guy in the world. By the end of practice, I wanted to be physically tired, to know that I'd been through a workout. If I wasn't tired, I must have cheated somehow, so I stayed a little longer.”
“I still wanted to get into the NBA. I was still on the team, I was a starting point guard and I was on and off the team because of my grades. That was the thing, discipline, discipline, discipline, and then I was going home to a very strict dad. He ran the house like the military.”

Source : Source: www.hiphopcanada.com
“I am not alone in thinking that we are at a tipping point ecologically and morally and politically. Democracy cannot survive without a vibrant middle class, yet the policies of one of the parties has been committed to wiping it out for 30 years.”

Source : "Harlan Fiske Stone, Pillar of the Law" by Alpheus Thomas Mason, (p. 95), 1956.

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