"There is an old Arabic proverb, 'When the king puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the poet', so throughout the ages, people in power have liked to control music, they used to throw songwriters in jail throughout history, and were assassinated."

-- Pete Seeger

#Kings Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Jail Quotes

“May I search it?" she asked. "We screen for weapons." I stared at her, always a risky thing to do to a vampire. "Of course not. I have no weapons.”
“Everybody was on the same page. Nobody has really gone out there on a different musical journey. When we got back together again, we all wanted to do the same kind of music.”
“For us [hockey] is an opportunity, myself and my brothers have an opportunity to do something special.”

Source : Source: www.complex.com
“because we don't have a Fairness Doctrine, and because we have further media consolidation, and because we have a craptastic corporate media, WE DON'T HAVE NEWS! We don't have an informed populous and we don't have a democracy... Everyone in the world knows that America, (in its current state, because of right-wingers) that the right wing arm of this country (that speaks for this country unfortunately) has no credibility when it comes to human rights or independent media.”
“Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I get very heated about anything that is socially unkind.”

Source : "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“If I'm with a man I'm soft and buttery.”
“Pain is nothing. Pain is in the mind. If you can walk you can run.”

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