"It was the case in the 70s and 80s that people believed music could change the world. But now people aren't making music because they want to change the world; they're making music because they want to just make a ton of money."

-- Sinead O'Connor

#People Quotes #Want Quotes #World Quotes

“I know how important it is to have a helping hand. In my childhood I had difficult times because of hormonal problems. If I hadn't had support, I wouldn't have been able to fulfill my dreams.”
“Growing up under the heavy hand of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, it was drummed into me that attending weekly mass was not an option. It was a must to avoid eternal damnation, which was not a prospect filled with many positives. Hell fire was perpetual, and no parole would be offered.”
“The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.”

Source : Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.”

Source : Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”
“Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.”
“I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.”
“People think: 'If this photographer's looking like a big jerk-off, maybe it's okay if I do.' I like to catch my subjects off balance a bit.”
“Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.”

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