"I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it."

-- Diana Krall

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“Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.”

Source : "A Fundamental Challenge to Democracy" by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2013.
“Now that our sexual experience is increasingly available to us as a subject for contemplation, we have to extend our language to express our new consciousness until we have as many words for sexuality as the Eskimo has for snow, that pervasive, beautiful, and mortal climate in which we all live.”

Source : Jane Rule (1981). “Outlander”, Tallahassee, Fla. : Naiad Press
“For me, success to me is waking up and doing what you're doing every day, whatever that looks like to me.”

Source : Source: youknowigotsoul.com
“In some cases, people are silent; they're being complacent. But we're also seeing people speak out against some of these raids, these arrests. So for example, the Townhouse Gallery - the outreach director gave an interview to Ahram Online, which is a semi-official news agency here. And he sort of dismissed it, played it down. But the publisher from the publishing house - the Merit Publishing House, which was raided - he said this won't scare us; we will continue to dream of a free country, a country with social justice, and this won't silence us.”

Source : "Egypt Expands Crackdown On Freedom Of Expression, Advocates Say". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 30, 2015.
“Creation comes before distribution -- or there will be nothing to distribute.”
“Programs should be written and polished until they acquire publication quality.”
“No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.”
“I remember reports that the American and English newspapers were very happy about the fact that so many were killed in Dresden. There are many instances of barbarity and cruelty on the part of the Allies which I could tell you.”

Source : Said to Leon Goldensohn, June 15, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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