"I have a lot of survivor insticts, and I know when to quit. I know when to go forward it my life, but not everybody does."

-- Meredith Brooks

#Doe Quotes #Survivor Quotes #Quitting Quotes

“A necessary part of our intelligence is on the line as the oral tradition becomes less and less important. There was a time throughout our land when it was common for stories to be told and retold, a most valuable exercise, for the story retold is the story reexamined over and over again at different levels of intellectual and emotional growth.”

Source : Wes Jackson (2015). “Becoming Native to This Place”, p.89, Counterpoint
“When you're younger and a little more innocent, you write whatever [lyrics] comes naturally. But as you get used to writing you try to steer the sound and music to different music and throwing in the "kitchen sink" of sorts into the music. With that way, you end up putting in much more than before and you could even make much more next time around.”
“People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is.”
“The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.”
“I get so much out of being married and raising my kids - that's really important to me.”
“I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials.”
“Intelligent Design is a remarkably uncreative theory that abandons the search for understanding at the very point where it is most needed. If Intelligent Design is really a science, then the burden is on its scientists to discover the mechanisms used by the Intelligent Designer. (80)”
“I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn't see that as a requirement in my job description.”

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