"An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. [...] that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves. We are the monsters. (And the heroes too). Each of us has within himself the capacity for great good, and great evil."

-- George R. R. Martin

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“God's purposes and plans will not fail. Before you spend all your prayer time telling Him about yours, ask about His.”
“By disobeying god, we escape from his totalitarian prison where you cannot ask any questions, where you must never question authority. We become our human selves,”
“I'm going to beat this cancer or die trying.”
“A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.”
“[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their fellow citizens associated with Third World countries and the novels of Dickens was as dangerous as any battlefield enemy.”
“You know I was just taking a dump one day, and then as I sat there I realized, I really do deserve better.”
“No one that has ever been in combat ever wants to see war anywhere in the world. It is horrible. It's horrible looking at the pock-marked walls. It's horrible looking at the flesh embedded on walls in Bosnia. It was horrible looking and interviewing and talking to the kids who lost their parents, because Saddam Hussein decided to feed their parents to the lions in downtown Baghdad. To characterize particularly myself, but other groups, as wanting to advocate a war I think is not only disingenuous, I think it's a patent falsehood intentionally created to stigmatize a group of people.”
“I've become one of those annoying people who brings their own food on to planes.”

Source : "Jessie Ware: 'I'm such a bully about food'" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2013.

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