"It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do."

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Source : Richard Hofstadter (2011). “The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it”, p.231, Vintage

Richard Hofstadter

#Heart Quotes #Want Quotes #Reason Quotes

“'Firecracker' was such a fun song to write and to perform.”
“If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.”
“By the Revolution the Germans have made themselves pariahs among the nations, incapable of winning allies, helots in the service of foreigners and foreign capital, and deprived of all self-respect. In twenty years' time, the German people will curse the parties who now boast of having made the Revolution.”

Source : "My War Memories, 1914-1918". Book by Erich Ludendorff, 1919.
“If we use less, if we consume less, we're going to have more”
“I dont really like simple characters too much; its too easy. I like a challenge, and I like characters you connect with on screen.”
“At home we watch DVDs and love our many animals.”
“We will have a world government whether you like it or not. The only question is whether that government will be achieved by conquest or consent.”
“I still think that's successful, to make 50 bucks a day with your own music.”

Source : "Insane Clown Posse's Violent J on working at McDonald's and Janet Jackson's curves". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 18, 2015.

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