“It's a journey, it's a fight everyday. There was a real effort to stay in the program... So far this has been a very successful rehab.”
“Though the heart wear the garment of its sorrow And be not happy like a naked star, Yet from the thought of peace some peace we borrow, Some rapture from the rapture felt afar.”
“I am very close to my family. I have learned a lot from my father. He used to tell me to be honest with yourself and not to argue with your seniors. You dont need to be involved in any quarrel, as sometimes you need to remain silent intelligently.”
“I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from playing tango with Piazzolla to all the different bands I've had.”
“Is it every man and woman's curse to want it all and only get ten percent of it? Or do we ask too much?”
Source : Lorna Landvik (1999). “Patty Jane's House of Curl”, Ivy Books
“The Social Security Act offers to all our citizens a workable and working method of meeting urgent present needs and of forestalling future need. It utilizes the familiar machinery of our Federal-State government to promote the common welfare and the economic stability of the Nation.”
“There is no clear place to draw the line once you eliminate the traditional marriage, and it's the same once you start putting limits on what guns can be used, then it's just really easy to have laws that make them all illegal.”
Source : "Louie Gohmert Links Gun Magazine Limits To Gay Marriage, Bestiality" by Luke Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2013.
“In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.”
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