"And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race."

-- James Russell Lowell

#Race Quotes #Two Quotes #Triumph Quotes

“When I was growing up in Wakefield in the 90s I would get in fights for carrying a guitar around.”

Source : "The Cribs' Gary Jarman Talks Johnny Marr Collaboration, New Album". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2009.
“Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.”
“Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests.”
“[Photography] is always like a state of grace, like the appearance of something that I hadn't foreseen, that surprises me and stops me. If I only did what I had in mind, there would be no emotion. It would be like keeping one's eyes shut rather than open, like theorizing rather than seeing.”
“If you want something you just have to see it and believe in it and not take no for an answer.”

Source : "Rick Springfield: The Journey Is Never Over". Interview with Howard Kerbel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2014.
“One word of love is worth more than a thousand clever speeches.”
“They put the thing down your throat so you don't swallow your tongue, and they put electrodes on your head. That's what was recommended in Rockland State Hospital to discourage homosexual feelings. The effect is that you lose your memory and become a vegetable. You can't read a book because you get to page 17 and have to go right back to page one again.”
“Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond to a surprise terrorist attack? How would it respond to an earthquake?”

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