"In the United States, the government is bailing out banks, intervening in the economy, yet in Latin America, the Right continues to talk about 'free markets.' It's totally outdated; they don't have arguments; they don't have any sense."

-- Hugo Chavez

#Latin Quotes #America Quotes #Government Quotes

“So as I increase in my knowledge, in my training and education, I increase in my value in my worth to society that Iâ€™m trying to penetrate.”
“Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money.”
“What's a victory when its hollow?”
“So when you're talking about lyrics in the context of music, it's not just about what the words mean, and what you were thinking about when you wrote it. It's not cognitive in that same way. It's almost like music turns words into touch, which is hard to describe, like the feeling of your shirt on your back. It's a pretty delicate thing to try to put into words. You just feel it.”
“In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.”
“Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.”
“I love London, I love the British people.”
“Why does it help to read others' stories? It is not only that misery loves company, because (I learned) misery is too self-absorbed to want much company. Others' experiences did help with my emotional struggle...”

Source : David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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