"Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town of Dallas, Fort Worth, and as peaceful as the inland waterway that rubs up against my former home in Virginia Beach."

-- Martina Navratilova

#Country Quotes #Beach Quotes #New York Quotes

“Leading the Jewish people is not easy -- we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp wittedness and polemics to a very high level.”
“We see, then, that the disappearance of the conscious personality, the predominance of the unconscious personality, the turning by means of suggestion and contagion of feelings and ideas in an identical direction, the tendency to immediately transform the suggested ideas into acts; these, we see, are the principal characteristics of the individual forming part of a crowd. He is no longer himself, but has become an automaton who has ceased to be guided by his will.”

Source : Gustave Le Bon (1960). “Psychologie des foules”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is the one who is still alive.”

Source : "John Cage, Elfin Enigma, at 64" by Donal Henahan, www.nytimes.com. October 22, 1976.
“So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!”

Source : "Cee Lo Green: 'I've been such an oddball my whole life'". Interview with Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2010.
“He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.”
“You think that itâ€™s not magic that keeps you alive? Just â€˜cause you understand the mechanics of how something works, doesnâ€™t make it any less of a miracle. Which is just another word for magic. Weâ€™re all kept alive by magic, Sookie. My magicâ€™s just a little different from yours, thatâ€™s all.”
“The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but until and if it destroyed itself, it harbored the potential to become nobler, to take responsibility for its actions, to live and let live, and to earn the stewardship of the earth.”
“Systems don't change easily. Systems try to maintain themselves, and seek equilibrium. To change a system, you need to shake it up, disrupt the equilibrium. That often requires conflict.”

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