"Barbara Bush has her finger on the pulse of America. Im so glad shes back and more compassionate than ever, ... Thats right, of course people just sat around New Orleans, boring, uninspired, soulless New Orleans, and dreamed of someday relocating to the Astrodome. Oh, dear Lord, if only I could leave my unhappy existence and head on up to wonderful Houston and live with my friends side by side in a spacious football stadium, my life would be so much richer and complete."

-- Sandra Bernhard

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“I am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither poet, composer, or musician. These are merely tools used by sensitive men to carve out a piece of beauty or truth that they hope may lead to peace and salvation.”

Source : Gil Scott-Heron (1990). “So Far, So Good”
“Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile of sundry facts -- some of them interesting or curious but making no meaningful picture as a whole.”
“A Lincolnesque leader is confident enough to be humble - to not feel the need to bluster or dominate, but to be sufficiently sure of one's own judgment and self-worth to really listen and not be threatened by contrary advice.”

Source : Evan Thomas, Staff of Newsweek (2009). “A Long Time Coming: The Inspiring, Combative 2008 Campaign and the Historic Election of Barack Obama”, p.186, PublicAffairs
“For years The National has been labeled as a gloomy kind of rock bandI think mostly because of Mattâ€™s deep baritone voice, which even if he is singing about unicorns and butterflies, he just sounds sad most of the time.”
“We live not in our moments or our years: The present we fling from us like the rind Of some sweet future, which we after find Bitter to taste.”

Source : Richard Chenevix Trench (1874). “Poems”, p.135
“I could not but wonder at the queen's unprecedented civility, until I realized with a flush of shame that it was my own improved behavior that motivated hers. So it is that we in life determine our own treatment.”
“I'm far too outspoken to be a woman in Puritan times.”

Source : "Janet Montgomery Talks SALEM, How Much Fun She Has with Her Role, Why the Witch Trials Are Still Fascinating, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 15, 2014.
“I think actually singing the words is more therapeutic than just sitting down to write them, because then you are letting it out, and it's coming from your gut.”

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