"My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility."

-- Holly Near

#Creativity Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Work Out Quotes

“Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.”
“Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.”
“Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.”

Source : "Dmoch lamp line named for Francis Ford Coppola" by Zahid Sardar, www.sfgate.com. March 30, 2011.
“[Barack] Obama, for example, he has not given up on cap-and-trade. Now, he has not been able to pass cap-and-trade, but cap-and-trade is all about redistribution of wealth in a global basis - taking money out of this country and giving it to third-world countries on the other end of the ocean. And that is redistribution of wealth in a global basis. It's fundamental Marxism.”
“Growing up I wasn’t sure I was female. As I grew further I wanted to be a lesbian but I wasn’t sure I would meet even the most basic membership criteria (though eventually I created a ‘femme dyke’ persona that worked well for over fifteen years). It wasn’t until my early twenties that I was sure of at least one thing: I was an artist. Quite an accomplishment for anyone assigned female at birth in a culture that calls only male artists ‘great’.”
“He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.”
“I think everybody can agree that you can hear a certain song and it will put you in a certain mood, and that's just the beauty of music and I am so inspired by that.”
“If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play.”

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