"Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States."

-- Anna Louise Strong

#Character Quotes #Practice Quotes #United States Quotes

“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”
“Everyone plays a role and no one says what's truly on their mind.”
“Nobody wins until we all do.”
“Protests are fine. But in South Carolina we believe in the rule of law, and the people of this state should never doubt that as governor, I will enforce it.”
“You could say that clinical depression is an incapacity to aesthetic response. It's like there's a constant agreement within ourselves, a kind of mutual understanding between ourselves and the world.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I'm blessed with learning easily. I've always had a good thing about memorizing quickly, and I just leave the script kind of open somewhere, and as I walk by I'll just take a swipe at it and then go on about my business and pretty soon it sticks.”
“Our "society" is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. Desperately insecure, fearing his woman will leave him if she's exposed to other men or to anything remotely resembling life, the male seeks to isolate her from other men and from what little civilization there is, so he moves her out to the suburbs, a collection of self-absorbed couples and their kids. Isolation, further, enables him to try to maintain his pretense of being an individual by being a "rugged individualist", a loner, equating non-co-operation and solitariness with individuality.”

Source : "SCUM Manifesto". P. 7, 1967.
“We've been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us - it's going to be almost like rock music.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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