"You ought to be able to grow up in a place and not have to get the hell out of it when you turn eighteen."

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Source : Philipp Meyer (2009). “American Rust”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

Philipp Meyer

#Growing Up Quotes #Able Quotes #Hell Quotes

“It's funny how people who we fight with the most at the end of day are the ones that really got your back.”
“Anybody can be a halfway man, but the one who rises above this class is the one who keeps everlastingly pushing.”
“The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place.”
“The self-talk of the ego-mind is so busy describing what is happening, judging whether it is good or bad for us, and telling us what we should think and do, that there is little opportunity for our inner knowing to be heard. Instead we remain attached to our assumptions, dreaming of the fulfillment we believe they will bring.”
“Amber London is a political rapper, a preaching rapper who speaks true facts and not just nonsense.”
“You're always first when no one's on your side.”
“Sex is more openly spoken about than 40, 50 years ago, and I think probably in comparison to a lot of bands - certainly other contemporary pop girl bands - we're certainly not as suggestive. We talk about sex in the way that we would to our friends. As a girl group, I think it was important not to avoid those sort of things either, because it's about confronting people's idea of what women should be talking about and how they should talk about it. There's no point in shying away from subjects like that, because they exist.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.”

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