"It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa."

-- Robert Smith

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“My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.”
“The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.”

Source : James Gould Cozzens (1978). “Just Representations: A James Gould Cozzens Reader”, Harvest Books
“Art makes people do a double take and then, if they're looking at the picture, maybe they'll read the text under it that says, "Come to Union Square, For Anti-War Meeting Friday." I've been operating that way ever since - that art is a means to an end rather than simply an end in itself. In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.”
“When I was born, my father named me Melissa, and I am still Melissa but I got the nickname Lizzo around the time I was in the Cornrow Clique. I'm from Houston, so naturally, everyone dropped the second syllable of your name and just put an "O" there.”
“I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.”
“One of the techniques terrorists employ is to allege torture and mistreatment when they are captured, regardless of whether it is true.”
“Tomorrow may be fair, however stormy the sky of today.”

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