"I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality."

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Azar Nafisi

#America Quotes #People Quotes #Soul Quotes

“If money can't be made reporting and writing articles, then professionals simply can't do it anymore. Unless we adopt the position that the amateur blogosphere is really capable of taking on the role that the 'New York Times' and CNN play, then we do need solutions for paying for content.”
“Sometimes song happens all at once where you sit down and the lyrics and the music just come out. So there definitely isn't one way that it happens - there are a lot of different things that take place.”

Source : Source: www.songfacts.com
“The show, like everything we have done and still do, is just one more experiment.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I met Elvis in your woods one night,â€ Terry said. One of the EMTs had given him a shot, and I thought it was beginning to work. â€œI knew I was nuts then. He was telling me how much he liked cats. I told him I was a dog person, myself.”
“For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays.”
“Backhoes can save us a lot of digging. But of course, you can misuse it.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Iâ€™d be glad to go out on a limb with those Who want nothing beyond what the wind bestows, Were I not bound to roots, dug in deep to bear Never being done grasping for light and air”
“As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.”

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