"There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses."

-- Robert Breault

#Winning Quotes #Excuse Quotes #Reason Quotes

“There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.”

Source : "Phil Ochs in Concert". Live album by Phil Ochs (introduction to the song "The Marines Have Landed on the Shores of Santo Domingo"), March 1966.
“Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Of course, there's always one theater that shows some kind of European film. Now, fortunately, you have DVDs, so it's possible to get anything you want within a few hours. In those days, it was virtually impossible to get Italian films, or German films, or whatever. So I grew up with very standard, mainstream films.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“At a certain point, the soul exits from a cherished photograph, because we have come to the end of our loving projection into that moment.”
“I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination decides it needs to take a nap. maybe that's what it needs to do.”
“The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.”

Source : "The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul". Book by John Desmond Bernal, 1929.
“The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.”
“I just continue to look for different material, great material, as good as I can find, and try to go in there and do as good a job as I can do in making it a record. That's all you can expect. That's all that you can do.”

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