"A half-century before Madonna, Gypsy [Rose Lee] understood how to make performance out of desire, how to exploit the very human and eternal instinct to always want most what we'll never have."

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Source : Source: tech.blorge.com

Karen Abbott

#Rose Quotes #Desire Quotes #Half Quotes

“Don't waste your sufferings.”
“If you`re wondering how you`ll find time, it means you don`t really want to read. Because nobody`s ever got time. Children certainly haven`t, nor have teenagers or grown-ups. Life always gets in the way. <...> Time to read is always time stolen. <...> Stolen from what? From the tyranny of living.â€- p.125”
“Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.”
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.”
“If someone is calling for democracy, he is calling for an end of a dictatorship and if this is the will of the people, this could also mean overthrowing the regime.”
“You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it.”
“In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.”
“I have had a life in which I have had to face every big fear, and it has not been pleasant.”

Source : "Don't Cry for Me Fidel Castro". www.cubanet.org. May 15, 2000.

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