"The American dream is, in part, responsible for a great deal of crime and violence because people feel that the country owes them not only a living but a good living."

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Source : San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle, November 18, 1975.

David Abrahamsen

#Dream Quotes #Country Quotes #People Quotes

“The author is the successor of the saint, everyone respects the author.”
“After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.”
“Through this experience [of makimg movies], I recognized what an extraordinary set of personality traits it takes to be able to succeed in that world, and I was really drawn to the character work we could build with actors as a result.”
“But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.”
“You don't need the painful memories, because either you've resolved them. Denying always makes them want to come back. Denial is a mechanism that doesn't work. But allowing them to come back in little by little, those memories, you can begin to be quite comfortable with them, and it's even nice to have that as part of the map of your life.”
“Then sleep the seasons, full of might; While slowly swells the pod, And rounds the peach, and in the night The mushroom bursts the sod. The winter comes: the frozen rut Is bound with silver bars; the white drift heaps against the hut; and night is pierced with stars.”
“The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.”
“Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.”

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