"Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them."

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Source : "Greil Marcus: a life in writing". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2012.

Greil Marcus

#Country Quotes #America Quotes #Promise Quotes

“You can only accomplish your object in life by complete disregard of the opinions of other people.”
“Writing is always a solitary experience, but living, if you're lucky, is not.”
“I keep saying I'm going to cut back on styling, but it's hard to give up.”
“One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.”
“I have a really dry sense of humor. I don't think it's funny when people wink at the camera. That's more of an actor thing, just committing to whatever the thing is.”

Source : Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. March 02, 2011.
“What fuels me is that there are a lot of people coming to Broadway and to the show [Aladdin] for the first time. Lots of kids and lots of adults and it's usually the kids were it's a special moment for them.”

Source : Source: www.blackfilm.com
“Creativity healed me. I don't know that I could think of any word that I get more inspired by than the word healing.”
“The time to fix our broken immigration system is now... We need stronger enforcement on the border and at the workplace... But for reform to work, we also must respond to what pulls people to America... Where we can reunite families, we should. Where we can bring in more foreign-born workers with the skills our economy needs, we should.”

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