"If your writing is good, if it resonates, if it connects the dots for anybody out there, the lovers will come, the haters will come, support will come â€” sometimes in the form of money, sometimes in the form of something less expected â€” and it balances."

-- Amanda Palmer

#Writing Quotes #Support Quotes #Balance Quotes

“The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn't have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities.”

Source : "The Value of College". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 25, 2012.
“... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of cruelty and degradation of their fellows, I posit the "banality of heroism," which unfurls the banner of the heroic Everyman and Everywoman who heed the call to service to humanity when their time comes to act. When that bell rings, they will know that it rings for them. It sounds a call to uphold what is best in human nature that rises above the powerful pressures of Situation and System as the profound assertion of human dignity opposing evil.”
“There can be no stewardship without stewards.”
“The Olympics create a space for the complete destruction of human rights in Russia.”
“I'd love a drug that was good for you, I was thinking about ecstacy with Vitamin B.”
“With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.”
“Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.”
“A girl's not a watermelon you plug a hole in to see if it's sweet.”

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