"War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters."

-- Amy Goodman

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“Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.”
“Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.”

Source : Sebastian Horsley (2016). “Dandy in the Underworld”, p.234, Hachette UK
“When someone tells you something big, it's like you're taking money from them, and there's no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You have to take responsibility for listening.”
“Just tip my cap and call the Yankees my daddy.”
“Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.”
“I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.”
“I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God”
“Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatusâ€”the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.”

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