"There's a great book about John Kennedy and his relationship to civil rights called 'The Bystander.' The title alone suggests that he did as little as possible, any minimal critical effort, to really facilitate civil rights in the White House."

-- Michael Eric Dyson

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“My daily beauty regimen is definitely always in the mornings, and at night, always washing my face with a basic cleanser. I also use a moisturizer with SPF to follow up.”
“As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.”
“Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.”
“With music, you can create instant trust with an audience. You can hear three notes, and you surrender to it, whereas it takes you about ten minutes of language before people begin to trust you in a play.”
“Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.”
“When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.”

Source : Lenore Coffee (1973). “Storyline; recollections of a Hollywood screenwriter”, Burns & Oates
“Punk is no longer a subculture or a counterculture in any way. It's totally just a small reflecting mirror for the same things that go on in larger culture.”

Source : "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.
“I love carelessly, live respectfully, speak intelligently, work passionately, trust recklessly, get hurt easily and bounce back effortlessly.”

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