"If I had to say what my one greatest achievement is, it's that I lasted, and I'm still happy. I hope that comes through."

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

Cleve Jones

#Achievement Quotes #Stills Quotes #Greatest Achievement Quotes

“The purpose of the headlines must be to convey a message to people who read headlines, then decide whether or not they will look at the copy.”
“A proper record shop reminds us why we got into this in the first place - a place to be reminded of old friends, still in their spots on the shelves, a source of unexpected magic and lucid memories - a place that reminds us that music is more than dumb file sharing and the management of dead data by faceless sociopathic corporations, but a storehouse of dreams, both possible and impossible.”
“Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.”
“They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.”
“Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.”

Source : Harriet Monroe, Morton Dauwen Zabel, George Dillon, Karl Jay Shapiro, Henry Rago (1943). “Poetry”
“To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I suppose it's significant, at least to me, that my first work should be about a historical figure.”
“If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.”
“Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.”

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