"However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a " buzz " about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US."

-- Pat Garrett

#Artist Quotes #Media Quotes #Two Quotes

“I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.”
“A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself.”
“Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.”

Source : Greg Iles (2003). “The Footprints of God”, p.428, Simon and Schuster
“Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.”
“The rich think this land is theirs though they have never earned the right to call it theirs.”

Source : Maaza Mengiste (2011). “Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel: A Novel”, p.29, W. W. Norton & Company
“Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as a tool of state aggrandizement, in which the private parties are stand-ins for governmental interests.”
“The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.”
“We learn that many great thinkers were convinced that the Bible contained the Ancient Mysteries, but not in the literal wordsâ€”that the words on the pages were codes, and that the Bible is comprised of heavy-handed and useless story covering up something much more important and interesting. I get the feeling that [Dan Brown] is trying to tell me something, but I am not biting, reader.”

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