"I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash."

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Source : "The poor are treated like enemies". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. April 18, 1998.

Iris DeMent

#Cash Quotes #Bob Quotes #Dylan Quotes

“History shows that there is no more potent engine for reform than the passion of voters who feel betrayed by the politicians they hoped would do the right thing.”

Source : "Ending Piggybank Politics: Checkbook Balancing in San Francisco" by Michael Moritz, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2011.
“If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.”
“It's the hope for all the hopeless in the worst of trying times.”
“Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.”
“Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation”

Source : Thomas Gainsborough (1963). “Letters”
“Once upon a time, I believe it was a Tuesday when I caught your eye, we got onto something, I hold on to the night. You looked me in the eye and told me you loved me. Were you just kidding, cuz it seems to me, this thing is breaking down we almost never speak. I don't feel welcome anymore. Baby what happened please tell me cuz one second is perfect now you're halfway out the door. And I stood at the phone, you still haven't called. And you feel so below you, can't feel nothing at all. And I flashback to when he said forever & always.”
“Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task.”

Source : Martha Stout, Ph.D. (2005). “The Sociopath Next Door”, p.126, Harmony
“Badminton is not popular in the U.S. because I think the mentality of badminton has to change.”

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