"I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting."

-- Mike Wallace

#Battle Quotes #Urgency Quotes

“Honestly, if you donâ€™t fit in, then youâ€™re probably doing the right thing.”
“If God gave it to me," we say "it's mine. I can do what I want with it." No. The truth is that it is ours to thank Him for and ours to offer back to Him, ours to relinquish, ours to lose, ours to let go of - if we want to find our true selves, if we want real Life, if our hearts are set on glory.”
“Federal laws, including those that made so many people immigrate without documents, gutted the enforcement power of the Department of Labor and created a lower minimum wage for tipped workers than for everybody else, reinforcing the industryâ€™s”

Source : Rinku Sen (2009). “The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization: Easyread Large Edition”, p.280, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion'. Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.”
“Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the greater Creator”

Source : Alex Grey (2008). “Art Psalms”, p.37, North Atlantic Books
“Ephemerality is the little magazine's generic fate; by promptly dying it gives proof that it remained loyal to its first program.”
“I donâ€™t think â€˜science fictionâ€™ is a very good name for it, but itâ€™s the name that weâ€™ve got. It is different from other kinds of writing, I suppose, so it deserves a name of its own. But where I can get prickly and combative is, if Iâ€™m just called a sci-fi writer. Iâ€™m not. Iâ€™m a novelist and poet. Donâ€™t shove me into your damn pigeonhole, where I donâ€™t fit, because Iâ€™m all over. My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.”
“I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.”

Source : "Madeleine Peyroux looks deep inside". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. August 19, 2009.

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