"I would get songs sung to me, like 'Old Man River, 'or kids would call me Mississippi and things like that. At the time, I wished I had a name that blended in more with my surroundings. Now, though, I've really learned to love it. From fifteen, I really liked it. It felt appropriate. Before that, I don't think it quite fitted me. I had to grow into it ."

-- River Phoenix

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“Good art is in the wallet of the beholder.”
“Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.”
“There is no more important issue than restoring the protection of the law to pre-natal infants.”
“So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.”
“Our children should be taught to beware of everything foreign and not to disclose any state or party secrets to foreigners... for foreigners are eyes for their countries, and some of them are counterrevolutionary instruments [in the hands of imperialism].”
“Something rubs off from everything you read, observe, and tinker with.”
“The picture placed the busts between Adds to the thought much strength; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly 's at full length.”

Source : "Specimens of British Poetesses". Book by Alexander Dyce, 1825.
“It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.”

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