"A lot of journalists say, "Tell us about the '80s." Nobody wants to know about the '70s!"

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

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“I moved to Manchester to join a band and ended up getting into acting, and I moved back to London to become an actor and ended up joining a band.”
“There aren't that many galleries in Havana. There are a few state galleries and an ever-increasing but still limited number of independent galleries; there's no comparison with the number in New York.”
“Love is an emotion. It can't be seen or touched, and it is experienced differently by everyone, therefore it is difficult to measure.”

Source : "Ask a grown-up: how do we measure love?" by Marian Keyes, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2013.
“There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster.”
“I actually don't understand a word Paula's saying anymore. It's like a new language.”
“Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense.”

Source : "Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations". Book compiled by Kate Louise Roberts, www.bartleby.com. 1922.
“Do not get yourself into the illusion that there is something so unique about the question of organ or body parts ... that the general rules of economics do not apply.”
“Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually genuinely desiring peace. War is the outcome, not mainly of evil intentions, but on the whole of good intentions which miscarry or are frustrated. It is made not usually by evil men knowing themselves to be wrong, but is the outcome of policies pursued by good men usually passionately convinced that they are right.”

Source : Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. June 12, 1935.

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