"There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything"

-- Bonnie Raitt

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“In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.”
“I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.”

Source : "God Dies". Essay by Frances Farmer, 1931.
“I am not who I would like to be, It's just who I am right now.”

Source : "Song: 'Fragile' ('Carwreck Conversations')". 2004.
“You've got to make your mark. I just want some hank-panky. You never forget who you are sexy vs Skanky.”
“Talk to Bob Arum, cos he's my man. Don King kiss my ass!”
“If I had to vote for the bill again, I'd vote for it tomorrow.”
“...I said I was sorry.â€ â€œBe sorry, then. Just be sorry somewhere else.”
“I believe that a guarantee of public access to government information is indispensable in the long run for any democratic society.... if officials make public only what they want citizens to know, then publicity becomes a sham and accountability meaningless.”

Source : Sissela Bok (2011). “Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation”, p.179, Vintage

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