"I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. media is the video war game."

-- Amy Goodman

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“I idolize my father. I mean, he has worked so hard in his life.”
“I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age - unless you're an American of course. Perhaps all our children will be Americans.”
“I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.”

Source : "Hearts and Minds" by Roberto Suro, New York Times Magazine, December 29, 1991.
“If you can't handle the responsibility of a hit single, don't write one.”

Source : "Joe Elliott of Def Leppard". Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2011.
“There are people who are very dismissive of games and gamers.”
“Listening is more than being quiet. Listening is much more than silence. Listening requires undivided attention. The time to listen is when someone needs to be heard. The time to deal with a person with a problem is when he has the problem. The time to listen is the time when our interest and love are vital to the one who seeks our ear, our heart, our help, and our empathy.”
“When you put a halo on concepts - gender roles, religion, nationality or pride - or you put a halo on any topic - anything that you hold dear like the relationship between a father and son or a mother and daughter, what it means to be married or what it means to be single or what it means to be a free spirit or what it means to be an artist - if you just put a halo on something and say it's untouchable - "that is special and that is perfect" - you immediately close your eyes to the truth of it, because the truth is that nothing is perfect.”

Source : Source: www.songfacts.com
“Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit.”

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