"Fear is something I try not to absorb."

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Source : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2011.

Mark E. Smith

“Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.”
“Logic is an excellent weapon when employed correctly.”

Source : Cherise Sinclair (2013). “If Only”, p.363, VanScoy Publishing Group
“The brand is lying about something, or at least misrepresenting it. When I read a bottle of shampoo or moisturizer or other beauty product, I always perceive a dark subtext. The words haunt me. It comes across as humorous to the reader/audience, but in fact the words really do make me a little bit queasy. Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
“Praying is not about asking; it's about listening... It is just opening your eyes to see what was there all along.”
“Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.”
“Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.”
“What miracle is this? This giant tree. It stands ten thousand feet high But doesn't reach the ground. Still it stands. Its roots must hold the sky.”
“We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music.”

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