"My music is evidence of my souls will to live."

-- Charles Mingus

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“Politicians are like weather vanes. Our job is to make the wind blow.”
“I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I have no affinity for animals. I donâ€™t hate animals and I would never hurt an animal; I just donâ€™t actively care about them. When a coworker shows me cute pictures of her dog, I struggle to respond correctly, like an autistic person who has been taught to recognize human emotions from flash cards. In short, I am the worst.”
“He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature”
“I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.”

Source : "Roth Army" by Oliver Hurley, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2004.
“I love Christmas. A time to slow down and enjoy life and be with my family and friends. In busy years, it keeps me sane. In bad years, it makes me feel whole again.”
“Pure photography allows us to create portraits which render their subjects with absolute truth, truth both physical and psychological. That is the principal which provided my starting point, once I had said to myself that if we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times in which those subjects live.”
“Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . . And boldly venture to whatever place Farthest from pain?”

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