"The thought was, 'We're going to go to California, where the soil is black and ten feet deep, and there are no rocks, and there's gold in the hills.' The West becomes the surface onto which people project their fantasies, where once the future had been the place they projected their fantasies. So it's not just the war that ends the utopian communities, but what follows."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Christine Jennings

#War Quotes #Rocks Quotes #California Quotes

“Embarrassment has a lot to do with thinking too much. Let it go. Nobody cares as much as you think they do.”
“We're born to shimmer, we're born to shine We're born to radiate We're born to live, we're born to love We're born to never hate.”

Source : Song: Shimmer Right, 1998
“I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.”
“I am very concerned about nutrition and always try to be careful about what I eat.”
“Even with clothing naked animals, there were people who wanted to send in money. A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check. I fondled it for about five minutes and then sent it back. I told her I couldn't accept money from strangers.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“Workable solutions for Earth are urgently needed. Saving seals and tigers, or fighting yet another oil pipeline through a wilderness area, while laudable, is merely shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic.”

Source : Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence (2007). “Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo”, p.240, Macmillan
“For you to be able to take a picture of yourself that you feel good enough about to share with the world - I think that's a great thing.”
“Remember this: The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself.”

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