"Sure, jets are fast and economical, but, oh my, what fun we've lost and what leisure we've sacrificed in the race to efficiency. Somehow, stepping onto a plane and zooming across the United States in a matter of hours doesn't hold a candle to the dear, old-fashioned train ride."

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Ginger Rogers

#Fun Quotes #Race Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?”

Source : marilyn french (1977). “the womens room”
“I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals.”
“The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer.”
“I was a little girl with a pot belly and Afro puffs, hyperactive and overdramatic, and I found the theater and I found my home.”

Source : "Audra McDonald Goes Back Home With New Album". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 30, 2013.
“If I begin my book with a review of the coup, it is only to show that my abiding interests for Australia did not end with it. They shall end only with a long and fortunate life.”

Source : "Abiding Interests". Book by Gough Whitlam (Foreword), 1997.
“If you read Animal Farm, you know that humans traditionally forget the reason we have revolutions in the first place.”
“I'm interested in confronting police brutality and police abuse of cracking down on street performers and street artists, but also in valorizing street art as legitimate performance within the artistic sphere, where it's so often conflated with pan-handling and begging and not "successful" art. I want to change laws around street performance.”

Source : "'Hyper subtle sexual ego'". Interview with Peter Nowogrodzki, logger.believermag.com. June 4, 2014.
“You are unfortunately most of the time defined by your success, when your success is not a major part of your personality.”

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