"My first term I sang Al Green... in my second term, I'm going with Young Jeezy ."

-- Barack Obama

#Green Quotes #Als Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I hate America. I hate this country. Itâ€™s just big ideas, and stories, and people dying, and people like you. The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word 'free' to a note so high nobody can reach it. That was deliberate. Nothing on earth sounds less like freedom to me. You come to room 1013 over at the hospital, I'll show you America. Terminal, crazy and mean. I live in America, thatâ€™s hard enough, I donâ€™t have to love it. You do that. Everybodyâ€™s got to love something.”

Source : Tony Kushner (2013). “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition”, p.230, Theatre Communications Group
“At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists.”
“When you push someone too far, they will push back and they push hard.”
“Under the olive trees, from the ground Grows this flower, which is a wound. It is easier to ignore Than the heroes' sunset fire Of death plunged in their willed desire Raging with flags on the world's shore.”
“Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends.”
“I've had people ask me: 'How can you make a movie about a murderer? A terrorist?' What they don't understand is that I'm in support of everyone who appears on screen. I have to be. I take the position of everyone who's on screen. I'm not judging them one way or another.”

Source : "Benicio Del Toro Storms Out of 'Che' Interview". www.foxnews.com. January 28, 2009.
“The fundamental flaw in Social Security and Medicare is that they violate the 'welfare principle' in economics. The welfare principle forms the fundamental basis of all charitable work in churches and other private organizations: assist those who need help, and equally important, don't assist individuals who can take care of themselves.”
“Do you think that God would separate me from my husband if I killed myself? I feel as though I am going out of my mind at times. Wouldnâ€™t God understand that I just want to be with him?”

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