"The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on."

-- Julia Alvarez

#Inspiring Quotes #Kindness Quotes #Pay Quotes

“In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same.”

Source : Spin magazine, May 1985.
“If people don't like it [my music] now, they will.”
“The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.”

Source : Nassau William Senior, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe, Charles Sumner (1856). “American slavery: repr. of an article [by N.W. Senior, entitled Slavery in the United States] on 'Uncle Tom's cabin' [by H.E.B. Stowe] and of mr. Sumner's speech of the 19th and 20th of May, 1856. With a notice of the events which followed that speech”, p.143
“Life sneaks up on us every once in a while and gives us something we didn't ever know we wanted, and lights within us a love we didn't even know existed.”
“Rome endured as long as there were Romans. America will endure as long as we remain American in spirit and in thought.”
“If you find it difficult to accept failure then you simply won't get any innovation because employees will be too frightened”
“In Europe, I'm recognized on the street sometimes. And that's cool, because I don't have to live there and deal with it every day. Unless you're Stephen King - a great writer, by the way, and anyone who says different knows nothing about the craft - you're more likely to be recognized in America if you play in a soap opera than if you're a novelist.”

Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.
“My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.”

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