"Having photographs around the house is fine - if they're royal and on the grand piano."

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Nicholas Haslam

#Upper Class Quotes #Piano Quotes #House Quotes

“And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that this should remain as it is, is a human being by definition only, having much more in common with the bedbug, the tapeworm, the cancer, and the scavengers of the deep sea.”

Source : James Agee (2013). “Cotton Tenants: Three Families”, p.21, Melville House
“Marijuana does not cause brain damage. Our media does by creating fears, encouraging hate and then selling the remedy to the fears and hate the media creates.”
“I don't just sit down and write all day, or the songs would be weird or stupid. They would be about different stupid thoughts that I go through.”
“Astrologys a moving system that depends on where youre looking at it from on Earth. My horoscope here in London would be completely different to down in New Zealand.”
“I would have beaten Bloomberg like a rented mule.”

Source : "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart, February 04, 2010.
“The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.”
“America! America! God shed His grace on thee.”

Source : "America the Beautiful" (song) (1893)
“I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.”

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