"The USA has more people in prison that any other country, including countries with much larger populations. 13% of the population is black but 80% of the people in prison are black, mostly for soft crimes."

-- Harry Belafonte

#Country Quotes #Usa Quotes #People Quotes

“In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.”
“Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.”
“I am a Cajun Baby in a Texas girl, an all-American woman and a global goddess”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.”

Source : Gillian Flynn (2009). “Dark Places: A Novel”, p.60, Broadway Books
“One of Alaska's strengths is our pioneer role in environmentally sensitive development.”
“If we destroy their environments and communities, we will lose the answers they have to solving our problems, and to the protection of our common futures.”
“If you fight back and get hit, it hurts a little while; if you dont fight back it hurts forever.”

Source : Joel Siegel (2003). “Lessons for Dylan”, PublicAffairs
“I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.”

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