"The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do."

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Source : "The Great Theft". Interview with Melanie Colburn, www.motherjones.com. November 18, 2005.

Billy Higgins

#Music Quotes #Japan Quotes #People Quotes

“This Obamacare program has Obama's name on it. He lied to people for three years about this program. People trusted him. People believed what he told them. They believed that he was going to improve the health care system in this country, and it was going to get cheaper, more affordable, more plentiful.”
“When these resources are degraded or polluted, then there are fewer of them for the rest of us, and then we start competing for them and eventually as we compete, there are those of us, who have the capacity, who have the ability to be the controllers, to decide who accesses them, how much they access, and eventually there is a conflict. Those who feel marginalized, those who feel excluded, eventually react in an effort to get their own justice, and we have conflict.”
“To this culture warrior, gay marriage is not a vital issue. I don't believe the republic will collapse if Larry marries Brendan. However, it is clear that most Americans want heterosexual marriage to maintain its special place in American society. And as long as gays are not penalized in the civil arena, I think the folks should make the call at the ballot box. Traditional marriage is widely seen as a social stabilizer, and I believe that is true.”
“There is a little bit of Nils Bohlin in every car.”
“Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social institutions, we need a public debate about the moral limits of markets.”

Source : Michael J. Sandel (2009). “Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?”, p.265, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many.”

Source : Max Stirner (1993). “The Ego and His Own”, p.253, Lulu.com
“I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realize that now.”
“The toy business began to drive the [Lucasfilm] empire. Itâ€™s a shame. They make three times as much on toys as they do on films. Itâ€™s natural to make decisions that protect the toy business, but thatâ€™s not the best thing for making quality films.”

Source : "Did ‘Star Wars’ become a toy story? Producer Gary Kurtz looks back". Article by Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. August 12, 2010.

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