"Today's Democrats are little more than a collection of narrow interest groups-unions, tort lawyers, minorities headed by an ossified leadership. They are clever, tenacious and increasingly nasty in defending their perks, as establishments typically are..."

-- Robert L. Bartley

#Clever Quotes #Groups Quotes #Minorities Quotes

“I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.”
“The gateway to freedom...was somewhere close to New Orleans where most Africans were sorted through and sold. I had driven through New Orleans on tour and I'd been told my great grandfather had lived way back up in the woods among the evergreens in a log cabin. I revived the era with a song about a coloured boy named Johnny B. Goode. My first thought was to make his life follow as my own had come along, but I thought it would seem biased to white fans to say 'coloured boy' and changed it to 'country boy'.”
“Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.”
“Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.”
“At 12 years old in the dangerous world that I was in, with a very difficult home life, I found the stage was the safest place to be. It was predetermined and predictable - and furthermore you got to be someone else. All the problems only began when you left the building.”
“Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.”

Source : Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”
“Your future starts today. Donâ€™t go through life looking in the rearview mirror. Your life is filled with possibility.”
“If you help yourself to the benefits of being married when you are single, you're likely to help yourself to the benefits of being single when you're married.”

Source : "A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community". Book by Sylvia Barack Fishman, 1995.

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