"What do I actually mean when I say 'delusion'? I mean the absurdity of the claim that the excessive atomic armament of both sides creates a 'balance of terror' that reduces the danger of war; that in the long run it even offers a minimum of security. ... Hence the cynical saying: He who strikes first will die second."

-- Christa Wolf

#Running Quotes #War Quotes #Mean Quotes

“I'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing.”
“Claudia Rankine'sÂ CitizenÂ comes at you like doom. It's the best note in the wrong song that is America. Its various realities-'mistaken' identity, social racism, the whole fabric of urban and suburban life-are almost too much to bear, but you bear them, because it's the truth.Â CitizenÂ is Rankine'sÂ Spoon River Anthology, an epic as large and frightening and beautiful as the country and various emotional states that produced it.”
“Habitat gives us an opportunity which is very difficult to find: to reach out and work side by side with those who never have had a decent home-but work with them on a completely equal basis. It's not a big-shot, little-shot relationship. It's a sense of equality.”
“When you're making a singular pop song, you don't really need any subject matter. You just sort of say, "Uh, I love you." And then you try to figure out some rhyme for that, and there never is one.”
“Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way.”
“I like to try to give something back to the community because I feel fortunate for how I was raised and how my life turned out. Each year, with the help of my brother, Grant, we run a charity golf tournament to raise money for the Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy.”
“I think sometimes there are negative connotations for those who have a business mind as well as a creative side.”
“An advantage to volleyball is that you have a scoreboard to tell how you have done as a team. The thing is, in life there is no scoreboard, at least not one that you can see.”

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