"I was in my teens and I was going through a bit of a phase, drinking a lot and doing E tablets and getting into street fighting and getting depressed. Then I'd listen to Marley and it lifted me out of it. I'd like to try and do the same for kids, that my music would give them a bit of hope and strength, and they'd know that I was telling the truth and I wouldn't lie to them."

-- Damien Dempsey

#Lying Quotes #Drinking Quotes #Kids Quotes

“There will be no greater burden on our generation than to organize the forces of liberty in our time in order to make our quest ofa new freedom for America.”
“I did some school plays in elementary school, but that was it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it.”

Source : "On the Molecular Theory of Evolution" by Jacques Monod, 1974.
“Some Jungian or Freudian would tell me I'm just trying to go back to the womb... at gunpoint, if necessary.”
“I know I can do so much more than this, I know that I could be a life force, could love with a heart full of soul, could feel with the power that flies men to the moon. I know that if I could just get out from under this depression, there is so much I could do besides cry in front of the TV on a Saturday night.”

Source : "Prozac Nation". Book by Elizabeth Wurtzel, 1994.
“We live and die; Christ died and lived!”
“In the midst of my skeptical, cynical, often pessimistic nature exists a slender capacity to believe, if only temporarily, in a guiding, unseen power, and whenever this happens, I go with it. That's what inspiration is. You don't get it from the gods. You make it.”
“I want to talk to people that have been through big disappointments, big emotional crises, deep life struggles, and I will learn something from that.”

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