"Always respect your superiors, if you have any."

-- Kinky Friedman

“Nobody is thinking they're going to come out here and put a team here and become a multimillionaire. I don't know anybody that comes into the NFL like that”
“In too many cases, the moms, the dads, the sisters and brothers of children with cancer must stand by a hospital bed and watch helplessly as this horrible disease consumes the life of an innocent child.”
“A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit”

Source : Liner notes for compilation album "The Broadside Tapes 1" by Phil Ochs, 1989.
“Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.”
“I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas for which there is not time enough to realize as sculpture... And I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.”
“It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.”
“The connection was so bad, and I couldnâ€™t talk at all during most of the call. How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person at the other end shouts back â€˜What?”
“Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.”

Source : Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.112, Pan Macmillan

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