"My problem is with the warped value system our culture has. Why is it that if you knife a woman in a movie it's PG, but if you swear at her it's rated R and if you make love to her it's rated X?"

-- Tim Dorsey

#Knives Quotes #Making Love Quotes #Culture Quotes

“This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.”
“Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.”
“Nothing says â€œi came here to winâ€ like jazz hands”
“So the Buddha is presenting awakening not as a single mystical experience that may come upon us at some meditation, some private moment of transcendence, but rather as a new engagement with life. He is offering us a relationship to the world that is more sensitized to suffering and the causes of suffering, and he gives rise to the possibility of another kind of culture, another kind of civilization.”
“What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.”
“Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn.”
“Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter 'repented', changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again.”

Source : Lillian Hellman, Jackson R. Bryer (1986). “Conversations with Lillian Hellman”, p.138, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Music is about the only thing left that people don't fight over.”

Source : "Ray Charles: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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