"And rock being a male-dominated, testosterone-driven place that I've been in the eye of the hurricane now for several years, I realized that it can be a place that can perpetuate homophobic behavior unless it's addressed by bands like us."

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Source : "Rise Against's 'Make It Stop' Tackles Bullying, Suicide" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. June 20, 2011.

Tim McIlrath

#Eye Quotes #Rocks Quotes #Years Quotes

“Happiness, most often, is a choice. Make the choice to sit, breathe, and be in that moment.”

Source : Cathy Lamb (2011). “The First Day of the Rest of My Life”, p.252, Kensington Publishing Corp.
“If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing,”
“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.”
“This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed from nothing, when voices dipped and dove. Our first flaws were emerging, but they were being corrected. Blurry vision could be fixed invisibly with the magic of the contact lens. Crooked teeth were pulled straight with braces. Spotty skin could be chemically cleared. Some girls were turning beautiful. A few boys were growing tall.”

Source : Karen Thompson Walker (2014). “The Age of Miracles”, p.43, Simon and Schuster
“When I was a little kid, if somebody said they were thirty-five, I'd say "Oooh, they're going to die soon". But as I get older it doesn't mean a thing. You mustn't ever give in. Never give in to thinking you're old, because you're never old. Your mind, and I tell you this and listen to me carefully, your mind is never, ever old, it's eternally young.”
“Authorities arrest me, release me, and then invite me back to host public events. I think it's interesting.”

Source : FaceBook post by Alain Robert from Feb 10, 2014
“Space travel is the only technology that is more dangerous and more expensive now than it was in its first year. Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin, the space shuttle ended up being more dangerous and more expensive to fly than those first throwaway rockets, even though large portions of it were reusable. It's absurd.”
“Finding a sponsor is the toughest part of racing, tougher than driving.”

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