"Some of the music I listen to is pop. I sing it in the shower - and then for public consumption."

-- Kathleen Battle

#Pops Quotes #Showers Quotes #Consumption Quotes

“Sex endows the individual with a dumb and powerful instinct, which carries his body and soul continually towards another, makes it one of the dearest employments of his life to select and pursue a companion, and joins to possession the keenest pleasure, to rivalry the fiercest rage, and to solicitude an eternal melancholy. What more could be needed to suffuse the world with the deepest meaning and beauty?”
“Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together 26 years later.”
“He who prays most receives most.”
“There is a cultural norm on the left of being afraid to declare victory, which is related to the binary of reform/revolution. Whereas reformists are winning small gains, revolutionaries don't want people to be satisfied with those small victories because they worry this will lead to acceptance of the bigger picture of capitalism domination, and so they find a way to turn every victory into a defeat. In the book, I call for a culture of declaring victory wherever we can.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“My writing is a lens into the possibilities of the American experience.”
“Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.”
“Hollywood is Hollywood. Thereâ€™s nothing you can say about it that isnâ€™t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter â€” youâ€™re the one who sat down, and joined the game.”
“A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.”

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