"Once you've gotten used to performing, you can't give it up."

-- Minnie Pearl

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“If i should enter the house and speak with my own voice, at last, about its awful furnitutre, pulling apart the covering over the dusty bodies; the randy father, the husband holding ice in his hand like a blessing, the mother bleeding into herself and the small imploding girl, i say if i should walk into that web, who will come flying after me, leaping tall buildings? you?”
“As much as I try to grow as a lyricist, I tend to laugh at even calling myself that, because I think that my actual talents lie more in arrangements than they do words.”
“I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics.”
“I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.”
“What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones that don't match up you kind of kick to the curb.”
“There're so many things I want to do, like become more media savvy. I am too lazy. But I'm making an effort.”
“Amy hugged Sinead, and Dan scratched Saladin. "Later, Saladin. Take it easy on Kabra. On second thought, don't.”
“Coupled with Usury, Unrestricted Competition destroys the small man for the profit of the great and in so doing produces that mass of economically unfree citizens whose very political freedom comes in question because it has no foundation in any economic freedom, that is, any useful proportion of property to support it. Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without the other that its rebellion is now threatening the very structure of the modern world.”

Source : "The Red Association" by Mikhail Bakunin, www.marxists.org. 1870.

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