"We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio."

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Rob Sheffield

#Ideas Quotes #Musical Quotes #Ratios Quotes

“Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.”
“Legal doctrine requiring a showing of evidence of racist intent and a narrow chain of causation has made it very difficult to prove in court that a person or group is experiencing racism because the standards are too narrow and too focused on individual intentions.”

Source : "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.
“Indeed I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong”
“I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.”

Source : Quoted in Reader's Digest, Oct. 1960
“I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.”

Source : Mae Brussell (2014). “The Essential Mae Brussell: Investigations of Fascism in America”, p.16, Feral House
“There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.”

Source : Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.3113, e-artnow
“The hardest thing in practice is finding enough time to think about design.”
“Spring's last-born darling, clear-eyed, sweet, Pauses a moment, with white twinkling feet, And golden locks in breezy play, Half teasing and half tender, to repeat Her song of May.”

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