"Even though there's no forum for me on the radio for the kind of music I sing anymore, I am still excited about having a career where I can sing the best music in the world, and people will come and hear me because of the hit records I've had in the past."

-- Johnny Mathis

#Past Quotes #Careers Quotes #People Quotes

“Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held sacred as a form of power and an access to reality. Prefer what is positive and multiple, difference over uniformity, flows over unities, mobile arrangements over systems. Believe that what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.”
“Could Afghanistan become another Vietnam? Is the United States facing another stalemate on the other side of the world? Premature the questions may be, three weeks after the fighting began. Unreasonable they are not, given the scars scoured into the national psyche by defeat in Southeast Asia. For all the differences between the two conflicts, and there are many, echoes of Vietnam are unavoidable.”
“I personally feel very strongly that what it will take is not more disasters, it's that what it will take is a vision of the future that is better than our present.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“It's more egalitarian on the Internet - anyone can put anything up. But in terms of the money it takes to allow a band to get good, there's less of it to invest.”
“So while I was studying, I rode my Trials bike, then I moved to roadracing.”
“While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony to the unemployed. An assumption cannot be used to justify making second-class citizens of those who are unfortunate enough to constitute living proof of the inaccuracy of that assumption.”
“There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand.”

Source : John Jay Chapman (1974). “William Lloyd Garrison”, Beekman Books Incorporated
“He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.”

Source : John Arbuthnot (2006). “History of John Bull”, p.32, ReadHowYouWant.com

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