"The only thing I really wanted to be was a beatnik, and look what happened: I ended up being in a band."

-- Debbie Harry

#Looks Quotes #Band Quotes #Beatnik Quotes

“Whether or not someone sexualizes you for wearing an outfit, that's their problem and not yours.”
“The paradigm of the development of natural resource-based industry - meatpacking, lard, timber, iron and coal, grain. Cincinnati's lard processing plants looked a lot like JDR's oil refineries thirty years later.”

Source : Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.
“It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a straight face say, we are going to repeal a tax that affects 1 percent of the American people, just 1 percent of the American people.”
“My God, I pray better to you by breathing. I pray better to you by walking than by talking.”
“I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make belief more complex and more textured, more real. Good writing unsettles, destroys both the author and the reader. From my perspective, there always has to be a tension between the writer and the monolithic elements of the culture, such as religion.”
“We made it. Despite the fear and predictions of doom. We made it. Even though there were days when we were tired and there were days when we forgot who we were. We made it. And we must thank the stars for this. And the birds for their beautiful songs. And the strangers who were careful to smile. We made it.”
“It's like suddenly in the Middle Ages, people figured men should be in charge of women's bodies since they were in charge of pretty much everything else”

Source : Inga Muscio (2002). “Cunt: A Declaration of Independence”, p.56, Seal Press
“We tie ourselves in knots when we act as if democracy is good for the United States and Israel but not for the Arab world. For far too long, we've treated the Arab world as just an oil field.”

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