"I don't know of any situation where you're going to have an officeholder in a country of eight million people who's cut off at the knees by the most powerful force in this world and who can still make it fly."

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Source : Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

Randall Robinson

#Country Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Cutting Quotes

“Crowded hallways, are the loneliest places, for outcasts and rebels,or anyone who just dares to be different.”

Source : Song: Invisible Hunter Hayes, Album: Storyline, 2014
“It is essential that our love be liberating, not possessive. We must at all times give those we love the freedom to be themselves. Love affirms the other as other. It does not possess and manipulate another as mine.”

Source : John Powell (1989). “Through Seasons of the Heart”, Thomas More Association
“The lack of carbohydrates can make you a little crazy.”
“There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.”
“Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fears...”
“Networking is an enrichment program, not an entitlement program.”
“The hardest part of art-making is living your life in such a way that your work gets done-over and over-and that means, among other things, finding a host of practices that are just plain useful.”

Source : David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.61, Image Continuum Press
“I grew up in a big Irish family, where everyone played the traditional sports, and I remember my grandfather saying to me, 'Why are you playing that communist game? You won't get anywhere with it.'”

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