"I vote because it's what small-d democracy is about. Because there are places where people fight for generations and stand for hours to cast a ballot knowing what we ought to remember: that it makes a difference. Not always a big difference. Not always an immediate difference. But a difference."

-- Ellen Goodman

#Fighting Quotes #Differences Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“My father was a good preacher and had a little bit of drama.”
“I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free.”
“A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.”
“It is strange how the presence of additional people can make you feel more alone.”

Source : James Alan Gardner (2014). “Ascending”, p.37, Open Road Media
“Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is the greatest failure of all.”

Source : Andrew Hill, John Wooden (2002). “Be Quick - But Don't Hurry: Finding Success in the Teachings of a Lifetime”, p.77, Simon and Schuster
“I didn't really have anyone in particular who inspired me or that I found fascinating as a kid. It wasn't until I was in my early twenties that I began to find people - and they were all historic figures - that I began to relate to and find some inspiration in.”
“The faults of which we ask you [God] the remittance, it is you who make us commit them; the traps of which we implore you to deliver us, it is you who has set them for us; and the Satan which surrounds us, this Satan, it is you.”
“If a few people decide not to buy my album it's really not going to change my life that much.”

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