"I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make."

-- Daniel Alarcon

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“There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.”

Source : Harry Stack Sullivan (1953). “The collected works”
“I did my version of g-funk and I made it into a genre, I made it huge, I made it worldwide. That's what I created, and the rest of the guys I worked with like Snoop Dogg, like Dr. Dre. We created that.”

Source : Source: au.complex.com
“Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said "Walk" the second you go there- and downticks- the itch tag at the back of your collar- that happened to every person in the course of the day. Maybe everybody had the same allotted measure of happiness within each day.”
“The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.”

Source : Gay Hendricks (1993). “Learning to Love Yourself”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
“The SEC has actually progressively loosened up the rules and recognized the value of social media, but the goal is always going to be to get information out as broadly as possible as quickly as possible.”
“What I was doing was servicing the needs of my constituents and I was not allowed to do that because I did not toe the line on U.S. policy for Israel.”

Source : "Cynthia McKinney Blasts U.S. on Libya TV, and Pro-Israel Groups in Iran". www.theatlantic.com. May 23, 2011.
“I don't worry about losing my looks. It's finding them on someone else that worries me.”
“Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.”

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