"A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows."

-- O. Henry

#Blow Quotes #Air Quotes #Political Quotes

“Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.”

Source : Song: Rainy Day People, Album: Cold on the Shoulder, 1975
“I think when you work on fossils, and you realize that a species is there, and it's abundant for quite a long period of time, and then at some point it's no longer there - and so, when you look at that bigger picture, yes, you realize that either you change and adapt, or, as a species, you go extinct.”

Source : "Louise Leakey: Where Did Human Beings Originate?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 24, 2014.
“Uncertain whose the narrowest span,--the clown unread, or half-read gentleman.”
“Everything mattered and nothing did, and I was tired of trying to find out how both of those things were true. I was an itch that I'd scratched so hard I was bleeding. I had set out to do the impossible, whatever the impossible might be, only to find out that it was living with myself. Suicide became an expiration date, the day after which I no longer had to try.”
“I dont believe in pressure. Pressure doesnt affect me at all.”
“But an opinion that it is possible for the present generation to seize and use the property of future generations has produced to both parties concerned, effects of the same complexion with the usual fruits of national errour. The present age is cajoled to tax and enslave itself, by the errour of believing that it taxes and enslaves future ages to enrich itself.”
“Everything I was being shown was ABT, so I grew up watching these videos of [Mikhail] Baryshnikov, Gelsey [Kirkland] and Paloma [Herrera]. Paloma and Angel [Corella] were the first people I ever saw dance live.”
“I'm not a politician, I'm a musician. I care about giving people a place where they can go to enjoy themselves and to begin to live again. To the man you have to give the spirit, and when you give him the spirit, you have done everything.”

Source : BBC Music Magazine, April 1998.

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