"I was so high, I needed a stepladder to scratch my own ass."

-- Kinky Friedman

#Scratches Quotes #Ass Quotes #Needed Quotes

“...genius is no proof against shooting one's own foot.”
“We actors are superstitious creatures. We do all the homework and we put all of the components together, but there's always one key aspect that we're not in charge of, really, and that's magic. You are always on the lookout for where and how that magic is going to ignite. When you have worked as much as I have and have sought it out as often as I do, you get very clear that it will come at very, very odd, unexpected moments.”
“Earl Scruggs is the guy who really made that leap with using three fingers in a rotating fashion to create this fast rippling sound that had never been heard before.”
“It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did it, but from the accidents and catastrophes they dodged. A decent life was the train that hadnâ€™t hit you, the slumlord you hadnâ€™t offended, the malaria you hadnâ€™t caught.”

Source : Katherine Boo (2012). “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum”, p.13, Portobello Books
“Barack H. Obama is a landmark presidential figure as the first black, multiracial, multicultural president from Hawaii and the Pacific.”

Source : Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
“Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.”

Source : Nobel lecture as quoted in "Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record" edited by Leopold Labedz, 1974.
“I always said I wanted to be a great athlete, ever since I was an overweight little kid. I just love competing in any kind of athletics.”
“Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.”

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