"If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check."

-- Mahalia Jackson

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“I think hip-hop can be prophetic and progressive, and at the same time, the dominant forms tend to be homophobic, misogynistic and something that we need to critically call into question.”
“Freedom doesn't mean the absence of all restrictions. It means possessing unshakable conviction in the face of any obstacle.”
“The will to act is a renewable resource.”
“The Getty family has been fully supportive throughout this situation, and for that, I am very grateful.”

Source : "Getty's double life stuns Californian high society" by Julian Borger, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 1999.
“Do you know, Mother, that Haj Salem was buried alive in his home? Does he tell you stories in heaven now? I wish I had had a chance to meet him. To see his toothless grin and touch his leathery skin. To beg him, as you did in your youth, for a story from our Palestine. He was over one hundred years old, Mother. To have lived so long, only to be crushed to death by a bulldozer. Is this what it means to be Palestinian?”
“This is the ultimate war of ideas. You're trying to get somebody to change their mind about conservatism, because that's exactly what we're fighting out there. We're fighting an insanely fundamentalist mentality that relies on taking certain things absolutely literally, and they're people on both sides of the conflict doing that. Even now, some people still take the Bible literally, and those are the ones wanting to fight a war against Islam.”
“The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama department, so the best thing for me to do was audition, help out, do carpentry, whatever it took to get me on that project.”
“In all, his outfit required nearly two thousand man-years of research and development, eight barrels of oil, and sixteen patent and trademark infringement lawsuits. All so he could possess casual style. A style that, in logistical requirements, was comparable to fielding a nineteenth-century military brigade. But he looked good. Casual.”

Source : Daniel Suarez (2009). “Daemon”, p.410, Penguin

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