"The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage."

-- Sue Monk Kidd

“It seems to take me about five years to get a record together, which is not a clever idea.”
“Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.”

Source : The Essential Lenny Bruce, ed. John Cohen (1967)
“There is no greater power than that of a laugh and happiness is a force which can save a person from the horrors of the world.”
“Hey, look at this guy Kenny G. with his thing, walking up and down the aisles of the concert hall and running off the stage and playing the same time. It's old hat!”
“Read something that YOU want to read, not something that you feel compelled to read.”
“1977 was also, of course, the year that Derek Jarman made his iconoclastic film Jubilee, which was so much part of the punk movement.”
“The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.”
“It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.”

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