"Companies prefer to put money in the pockets of shareholders or to hoard cash rather than to raise wages or invest."

-- Mariana Mazzucato

#Pockets Quotes #Wages Quotes #Cash Quotes

“A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.”
“I can't stand rap....people who can't sing do rap....you can sing rebellion as well as talk it....Hitler would have been in a rap band.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Poetry teaches us things that cannot be learned in prose, such as certain kinds of irony or the importance of the unsaid. The most important element of any poem is the part that is left unsaid. So the poetry frames the experience that lies beyond naming.”

Source : Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.
“The duty of the artist is not to be calculating in any sense, so that he may be free himself of human emotions while carried by the universal forces of life. Only then does one not think about making art, or about styles, or directions. Something comes about, something happens.”

Source : "Karel Appel - the complete sculptures". Edited by Harry de Visser and Roland Hagenberg, 1990.
“People don't really want to know what happens. They ask you for just a second, but then they don't want to know.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better disguise could there be than to get your image enshrined in the culture of the mass media? Anything that's described in artistic terms and shown in the movies stops being frightening and mysterious. For real horror you need the spoken word, you need an old grandpa sitting on a bench, scaring the grandkids in the evening.”
“It may not necessarily reflect my current frame of mind. Sometimes I have to put myself at the point in time of the voice that I'm trying to sing with.”
“How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child? We can replace the narratives that hold us back by inventing wiser stories, free from childish fears, and, in doing so, disperse long-held psychological stumbling blocks.”

Source : Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander (2002). “The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life”, p.45, Penguin

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