"Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate."

-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Democracy Quotes #Anticipate Quotes

“Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.”
“By now I was utterly deprogrammed. I walked along naked usually, clothes being not only putrid but unnecessary. My skin had been baked a deep terra-cotta brown and was the constituency of harness leather. The sun no longer penetrated it. I retained my hat.”

Source : Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.209, A&C Black
“I got lot to do at a pretty young age in terms of emotionally challenging films. I did not do any fluff... fluff is not me,”
“Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable.”
“Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in a poor position to fix them.”
“I find teaching - I like it, but I find just walking into the classroom and facing the students very difficult.”
“I'm just a regular guy that had a dream and ran for it.”
“People ask me: â€˜What is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space. It could be called jazz. It could be called hip-hop. It could be called blues, or rock, or beat. It could be called techno. It's just a new idea. For me, it was punk rock. That was my entrance to this idea of the new ideas being able to be presented in an environment that wasn't being dictated by a profit motive.”

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