"Let us invest less and less in war and tax cuts for the richest 1 percent, and more and more in jobs and schools for the other 99 percent."

-- Benjamin Jealous

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“He is clearly bookish. I did not follow a single word of their conversation at dinner last night, not one jot of it. He must be bookish.”
“Playing Lissa was the most thrilling, terrifying, uplifting, fulfilling, surprising, and experience of my life.”
“When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the whole little world you've created together collapses, and that everything you see or do reminds you of them, the worst is the thought that they tried you out and, in the end, the whole sum of parts adds up to you got stamped REJECT by the one you love. How can you not be left with the personal confidence of a passed over British Rail sandwich?”

Source : Helen Fielding (2016). “Bridget Jones's Diary: Picador Classic”, p.122, Pan Macmillan
“I think a lot about Big Mind-Small Mind, expansive, wide-lens consciousness and contracted, introverted consciousness. I have moments-we all do-when just being alive is a pleasure and a miracle. They feel like moments when the shutters of the mind are open so I can look out. It also feels as if those same shutters have no hooks to fix them in an open position. One small wind and bang-they slam shut.”

Source : Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.20, Ballantine Books
“Berry's On TopÂ is probably my favorite record of all time; it defines rock and roll. A lot of people have done Chuck Berry songs, but to get that feel is really hard. It's the rock and roll thing-the push-pull and the rhythm of it.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.”
“Some people wait so long for their ship to come in, their pier collapses.”
“I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.”

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