"The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again. It was in the air somehow. That ownership of bigotry. I hadn't seen it since I was a kid. It made me want to change the kinds of poems I was writing, but I'm terrible at writing overtly political poems."

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Adrian Matejka

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“There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.”
“The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.”
“If you eat dead food, you are going to feel dead. If you eat live food, you are going to feel alive.”
“I want to be a dad, first and foremost. I want to be a good father. I've spent so much of my life on the move and travelling around the world that just to set up a home for my family and be a good dad is something that motivates me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Do what you're told, and everything will be all right.”

Source : Interview with Erika Hernandez, www.aboutfilm.com. January 2004.
“Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and nobody to be kicked?”
“Your ancestors fought for you to have a share in that institution over there. It's yours. See the school board, and every Friday night hold your meetings there. Have your wives clean it up Saturday morning for the children to enter Monday. Your organization is not a praying institution. It's a fighting institution. It's an educational institution along industrial lines. Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!”
“We need to work less to achieve more. We need to stop fighting food and start embracing it. We need to stop punishing our bodies and start providing for them. We need to slow down and enjoy and then weâ€™ll get the results weâ€™ve been looking forâ€”and sooner than we expect.”

Source : Marc David (2015). “The Slow Down Diet: Eating for Pleasure, Energy, and Weight Loss”, p.17, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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