"I've told people that I don't see myself living very long. That really upsets them, but I'm just being honest."

-- Michael Angelakos

#Long Quotes #People Quotes #Upset Quotes

“Follow the evidence to where it leads, even if the conclusion is uncomfortable.”
“The inhabitants are numerous and happy... Throuhout the country the people do not kill any living creature, nor drink intoxicating liquor, they do not keep pigs and fowl, and do not sell live cattle; in the markets there are no butcher shops and no dealers in intoxicating drink... Only the Chandalas (lowest cast) are fisherman and hunters and sell flesh meat.”
“When you're trying to free yourself from a religion that has been ingrained in you since childhood, it's more like ripping out your veins and tendons.”
“here was a silence between them for a moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a longing to throw modesty and reserve to the winds and confess everything, and an equal determination to conceal the love forever, to be cool, aloof, utterly detached, to die rather than admit a thing so personal, so intimate.”
“Congress passed the 1887 General Allotment Act. And that act ended up dispossessing tribes of 90 million acres. That history of dispossession was also accompanied by a history of forced assimilation whether it was in residential schools, whether it was in dismantling traditional tribal governance structures. And the justifications for that is that you're not as good as us. Our systems are better. Our modes of education. Our ways of owning land, our ways of working have been continually cited to Indians as the reason for these government policies.”
“I don't tweet very much. I still believe in the mystery of an artist. I believe in going out when I'm ready to sell my product. A lot of artists are out there every day. But I remember the Julio Iglesiases, the Jose Joses - and it was about the music.”
“Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.”
“I don't go to church regularly. I wouldn't say I was religious, but more spiritual.”

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