"To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart."

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Source : "We could be heroes: an election-year letter" by Rebecca Solnit, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2012.

Rebecca Solnit

#Heart Quotes #Mean Quotes #Hopeful Quotes

“I've never felt that I was doing something for my people, except what I could to bring the accomplishments of the old ones to the attention of the world. I think the Northwest Coast style of art is an absolutely unique product, one of the crowning achievements of the whole human experience. I just don't want the whole thing swept under the carpet without someone paying attention to it.”
“It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you.”
“Building your own home is about desire, fantasy. But it's achievable; anyone can do it.”
“Youve got to take advantage of those guys outside. Its frustrating.”
“As a composer, I believe that music has the power to inspire a renewal of human consciousness, culture, and politics. And yet I refuse to make political art. More often than not political art fails as politics, and all too often it fails as art. To reach its fullest power, to be most moving and most fully useful to us, art must be itself.”

Source : "Making Music in the Anthropocene". www.slate.com. February 24, 2015.
“Growing up in Memphis, I have always admired St. Jude's for the magnificent work they do.”
“If youre going to be an entertainer, entertain thoroughly. If youre going to make a scary movie, scare people well.”
“Infinity is just time on an ego trip.”

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