"This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry - which was very personal and cathartic at the time- was very moving to folks. People thought that I was an actress because of my delivery, when I was just dropping into the work and really pouring out my soul."

-- Sonja Sohn

#New York Quotes #Moving Quotes #Careers Quotes

“Love them for who they are, and what they are they are; they are not you. Good stuff, isn't it? You have to live 73 years to get that.”
“A great man is a gift, in some measure a revelation of God. A great man, living for high ends, is the divinest thing that can be seen on earth. The value and interest of history are derived chiefly from the lives and services of the eminent men whom it commemorates. Indeed, without these, there would be no such thing as history, and the progress of a nation would be little worth recording, as the march of a trading caravan across a desert.”

Source : Boston (Mass.), George Stillman Hillard (1853). “A Memorial of Daniel Webster: From the City of Boston”, p.235, Boston : Little, Brown
“I've always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are trying to find peace, who are trying to have the Constitution apply to everybody, are they really the radicals? We're not protesting from the outside. We're inside.”
“Let us be merciful in our mental judgments of our brothers and sisters, for, in truth, we are all one, and the more deeply they seem to err, the more urgent is the need for us to help them with the right thought, and so make it easier for them to get free.”
“How could these people in the public eye not be afraid of me, but my whole town was?”
“Just in case the world ends tomorrow," she said. "We might as well enjoy today.”

Source : Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“To gain your heart's desire you have to lose some part of your old life, your old self. To do that you have to have courage; without it, you can't make the leap. And if you don't make the leap you have only three choices: You can hate yourself for not taking the chance, you can hate the person from whom you've sacrificed your happiness, or you can hate the one who offered you happiness, and blame them for your lack of courage, convince yourself it wasn't real.”

Source : Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Hit List”, p.180, Hachette UK
“If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100 â€¦ you would view them as being, basically, Greek godsâ€¦ that's where we're headed.”

Source : "Captain Michio and the World of Tomorrow" by Brian Bolduc, www.wsj.com. March 9, 2012.

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