"The U.S. has no friends, only interests."

-- John Foster Dulles

#No Friends Quotes #Interest Quotes

“The image of the bank robber I had in mind was more in the European tradition where you'd rob banks and give to the poor, like Robin Hood. It was that mythology. But very early on, my whole preoccupation was with art-studying it, examining every piece of work.”
“You're not going out there to make a living out of it by selling records. You want acclaim and you want to know people are listening.”

Source : "'Songs I Can Sing Ya': An Interview with Andy Kim and Kevin Drew". Interview With Evan Sawdey, www.popmatters.com. February 24, 2015.
“Going through this musical experience really helped us to understand the core of the film.”
“It's because you alienate half the room talking about sports. Half the crowd will be against you no matter what you say.”
“For ten years I had been protected, wrapped up in something like a blanket that had been stitched together from all kinds of different things. But people never notice that warmth until after they've emerged. You don't even notice that you've been inside until it's too late for you ever to go back-- that's how perfect the temperature of that blanket is.”
“I understand true life doesn't happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done or I have done to others.”

Source : Mary E DeMuth (2010). “Thin Places: A Memoir”, p.48, Zondervan
“Love is a punishment. We are punished for not having been strong enough to remain alone.”
“I am inclined to say that the personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings, even apart from any suspicion of the wider objects of many of the promoters of the present movement, would be a practical evil not only of the gravest, but even of an intolerable character.”

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