"I would always consider myself to be political with a small "p," although it makes me mad when people say politics should be kept out of music."

-- Thea Gilmore

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“I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, you should read To Kill a Mockingbird.”
“It is exciting to discover electrons and figure out the equations that govern their movement; it is boring to use those principles to design electric can openers. From here on out, it's all can openers.”
“The songs that I like are the ones that you can't visualize, that are just cries from the heart - those very straight, direct songs that make rock & roll music so wonderful.”
“I would like to believe that it is, and will continue to be, human compassion for other beings that will result in our giving them the protection they deserve, because of who they are, not because of what they can do for us or because some law tells us what we have to do.”

Source : "Who Lives and Who Dies: We All Care About Animals, Right?" by Marc Bekoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2010.
“People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'”
“Public Relations is the management of communication between an organization and its publics.”

Source : David M. Dozier, Larissa A. Grunig, James E. Grunig (2013). “Manager's Guide to Excellence in Public Relations and Communication Management”, p.9, Routledge
“I enjoy every minute, because there are going to be a lot of moments in your future that you're going to wish you held onto longer.”
“Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.”

Source : "Ricky Martin: 'I hated it when people tried to force me to come out'" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2011.

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