"The reason educational spending in Texas is so low is because you don't have a state tax there, and that's why Texas is big growth because you don't tax people to death."

-- Kinky Friedman

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“Whatever other children learn in a year, let BahÃ¡â€™Ã children learn in a month. The heart of â€˜Abduâ€™l-BahÃ¡ longeth, in its love, to find that BahÃ¡â€™Ã young people, each and all, are known throughout the world for their intellectual attainments. There is no question but that they will exert all their efforts, their energies, their sense of pride, to acquire the sciences and arts.”
“Traveling across the United States, it's easy to see why Americans are often thought of as stupid. At the San Diego Zoo, right near the primate habitats, there's a display featuring half a dozen life-size gorillas made out of bronze. Posted nearby is a sign reading CAUTION: GORILLA STATUES MAY BE HOT. Everywhere you turn, the obvious is being stated. CANNON MAY BE LOUD. MOVING SIDEWALK IS ABOUT TO END. To people who don't run around suing one another, such signs suggest a crippling lack of intelligence.”
“It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless.”
“I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.”
“I think there are two sides of the coin. On one hand, it can be challenging to access different parts of yourself, and you kind of have to put yourself back into reality when you're done with the job. But I think it's also really cool to have the ability to try on being different people and to explore some parts of yourself because you get to know yourself better. You get to know parts of yourself that you haven't met before. I think that's something that I've been learning more recently.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.”
“One puzzling thing about men -- they allow their sex instinct to drive them to where their intelligence never would take them.”
“I'm a takeout kind of girl. Whole Foods prepares most of my meals.”

Source : "Glee’s Jenna Ushkowitz Knows Exactly What Billy Joel Was Talking About". Interview with Vanita Salisbury, nymag.com. February 18, 2011.

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