"There's no love in my songs. There's just a lot of resentment. Just bad attitude. But that's intentional, that's what I like. I love the whole idea of Motown. Their idea was to sing how down on their luck they were, but the song implied hope that it would get better. I liked that idea, and I wanted to go even further with it."

-- Memory Tapes

#Song Quotes #Attitude Quotes #Luck Quotes

“Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.”
“At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. (Poetry) still has a power to speak to people's feelings, maybe in a way that fiction, because it works in a longer way, can't. There's a little bit of your brain that mourns and grieves that you're not writing poetry, but actually as long as I'm writing something, I'm happy.”
“I think that the solution of the question of numerical superiority of Russian conventional forces has to be solved.”

Source : "War and Peace in the Nuclear Age". "Zero Hour", openvault.wgbh.org. 1987.
“The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.”

Source : Allan Sekula (1984). “Photography against the grain: essays and photo works, 1973-1983”
“Think, Travel, Celebrate, Charm, Decorate, Dress, Live - colorfully”
“When you learn conflict-resolution skills in the playroom, you then practice them on the playground, and that in turn stays with you. If you have a combative sibling or a physically intimidating, older sibling, you learn a lot about how to deal with situations like that later in life. If you're an older sibling and you have a younger sibling who needs mentoring or is afraid of the dark, you develop nurturing and empathic skills that you wouldn't otherwise have.”
“Let me close by bearing witness (and my nine decades on this earth fully qualify me to say this) that the older I get, the more I realize that family is the center of life and is the key to eternal happiness.”
“In Hollywood, women hate each other.”

Source : "I've not had a boob job, says Kate". Interview with Jenny Johnson, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 13, 2004.

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