"That's something I've certainly taken from writers like Gord Downie is that there is a whole potential for breaking out of meter. Even if you don't do it, you're permitted to. He gave a lot of writers permission to do that, to expand and push out the borders of what a rock song can contain."

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Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

John K. Samson

#Song Quotes #Taken Quotes

“If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science?”
“Prosperity is often the enemy of spiritual development.”
“Citizens, you will elect me - I will be your leader.”

Source : "Bill O'Reilly: Hillary Clinton for president", www.foxnews.com. April 14, 2015.
“In 1986, Gloria Steinem wrote that if men got periods, they 'would brag about how long and how much': that boys would talk about their menstruation as the beginning of their manhood, that there would be 'gifts, religious ceremonies' and sanitary supplies would be 'federally funded and free'. I could live without the menstrual bragging - though mine is particularly impressive - and ceremonial parties, but seriously: Why aren't tampons free?”

Source : "The case for free tampons?" by Jessica Valenti, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2014.
“The foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the preeminence of free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens, and command the respect of the world.”
“Today, the reason we haven't found our grail, the key to who we are as women, is because we look for it in worlds of false power, the very worlds that took it away from us in the first place. Neither men nor work can restore our lost scepter. Nothing in this world can take us home. Only the radar in our hearts can do that, and when it does, ... 'We will light up like lamps, and the world will never be the same again.'”
“Down goes Cena! Down goes Cena! Down goes Cena!”
“I believe most in educated intuition, in what you get through profound experience.”

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