"I listened to lots of other kinds of music, but punk is what allowed me to actually play music."

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Source : Source: www.independent.co.uk

John K. Samson

#Play Quotes #Kind Quotes #Punk Quotes

“Four sits down on the edge of the carousel, leaning against a plastic horse's foot. His eyes lift to the sky, where there are no stars, only a round moon peking through a thin layer of clouds. The muscles in his arms are relaxed; his hand rests on the back of his neck. He looks almost comfortable, holding that gun to his shoulder. I close my eyes briefly. Why does he distract me so easily? I need to focus.”
“A direful death indeed they had That would put any parent mad But she was more than usual calm She did not give a singel dam.”

Source : 'Journal' p. 29
“I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.”

Source : "Patrick Swayze on Cancer: 'I Want to Last Until They Find a Cure'" by Katie N. Thomson, Rob Wallace, abcnews.go.com. January 6, 2008.
“The fact that my students could be in a little college in a little college town on the coast of Rhode Island, and be connecting in other countries with other people, did open them up and empower them and their sense of being. Whether it affected their writing, it's hard to tell.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“My foster mother always laughed and said it was his reputation for knowing everything that allowed for him to appear infallible: all he had to do was walk through the room and see who looked guiltiest when they saw him. Maybe she was right, but I tried looking innocent the next time, and it didn't work.”
“Men who have sacrifice their well-being, and even their lives, for the cause of truth or the public good, are, from an empirical point of view - which scorn ("fait fi", Fr.) virtue and altruism - regarded as insane or fools; but, from a moral standpoint, they are heros who do honour ("qui honorent", Fr.) humanity.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 38), 1937.
“Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.”

Source : David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“If you have something really important you want to say, you have to read your audience, I guess.”

Source : Interview with Michael Moore, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

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