"But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making."

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John Shelton Reed

#Believe Quotes #Hero Quotes #Poor Quotes

“My parents never really lecture me.”
“I'm definitely up in weight. I'm looking forward to getting an exercise routine again. It's like a daily decision.”
“I'm not a big believer in slavishly following research. It's one of the things that's wrong with television is that if you throw the whole - the decision-making process to the research department, you're not making any instinctive, visceral judgments about programs, which are show business.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“E-mail also changed things in that you don't have to write a full document to discuss something. You can just send an e-mail to a list.”

Source : "Meet the Man Who Invented the Instructions for the Internet". Interview with Cade Metz, www.wired.com. May 18, 2012.
“If you start parsing the cause-and-effect chain backward through time, eventually you land in cosmology - does the story begin with the Big Bang or the out-of-nothing creation of the world by the word of a Southern Baptist god? And that question is even more fraught than any of the others. The stakes couldn't be any higher, because not it's not just a question of life and death, but also a question of life after death or eternal torture after death.”

Source : "To Rage Against Meaninglessness". Interview with Matt Bell, logger.believermag.com. February 6, 2014.
“Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with me.”
“You are never more essentially, more deeply, yourself than when you are still.”
“I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon.”

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