"All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job."

-- Harvey Milk

#Country Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Reading Quotes

“Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.”

Source : Zane Grey (2000). “Tales of Fishing Virgin Sea”, p.154, Derrydale Press
“If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain very moderate amount of sensible organization. This idea shocks the well-to-do, because they are convinced that the poor would not know how to use so much leisure. In America men often work long hours even when they are well off; such men, naturally, are indignant at the idea of leisure for wage-earners, except as the grim punishment of unemployment; in fact, they dislike leisure even for their sons.”
“My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.”
“How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one.”
“We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.”
“We are told that talent creates opportunity, yet it is desire that creates talent.”
“I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.”

Source : "Daniel Baldwin's 'Little Love Affair With Drugs'" by Rena Furuya, abcnews.go.com. July 16, 2007.
“For a long time that's all I could do, howl and scream and cry like the wild animal of the night that I'd become.”

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