"Why are people so unkind?"

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Source : "Q&A with Kamahl: why is Hey Hey so unkind?". Interview with Melanie Mahony, www.crikey.com.au. October 9, 2009.

Kamahl

#Wisdom Quotes #Australia Quotes #People Quotes

“When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.”
“If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self.”
“The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day.”
“Architecture is not a private affair; even a house must serve a whole family and its friends, and most buildings are used by everybody, people of all walks of life. If a building is to meet the needs of all the people, the architect must look for some common ground of understanding and experience.”
“When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.”

Source : Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.19
“Congress should ban advertising that preys upon children, it should stop subsidizing dead-end jobs, it should pass tougher food safety laws, it should protect American workers from serious harm, it should fight against dangerous concentrations of economic power.”

Source : Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.267, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I would rather sleep only five hours and wake up at 5 or 5:30 a.m. and be in control of my time than to sleep later and spend the entire day controlled by time.”
“The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.”

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