"Iâ€™m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac."

-- Anne Lamott

#Mother Quotes #Next Quotes #Obsessive Quotes

“When I was a kid... I needed to belong.”
“I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.”
“The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.”
“Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.”
“You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life.”
“How did we lose our culture? Black people used to all do the same thing on Saturdays. We all watched "Soul Train" and "American Bandstand", got our fashion and dance tips, and then we emulated it and bought those records that we heard. Now it seems like there is no culture. The school of fish are all separate. Everybody's just randomized, listening to their own thing in their earbuds, and there's no uniformity. That bothers me.”

Source : Interview with David Drake, pitchfork.com. October 15, 2014.
“Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.”

Source : klassiknet interview, www.culturekiosque.com.
“And why do we worship hindsight (as in the news media's constant rehash of the day, the week, the year) and yet distrust foresight, which actually might make a difference in our lives?”

Source : Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company

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