"I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did."

-- Janis Karpinski

#Soldier Quotes #Attention Quotes #Care Quotes

“All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person.”

Source : "Alana Stewart: Hollywood honchos 'hypocritical' when it comes to guns". Interview with Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. January 30, 2013.
“The time is perhaps not altogether too green for the vile suggestion that art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear, and more than the light of day (or night) makes the subsolar, -lunar, and -stellar excrement. Art is the sun, moon, and stars of the mind, the whole mind.”
“Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with proud stomachs.”
“The people that can't sing anymore that had great voices are the people that went away for five years and then just decided to come back. And you just can't make a comeback. Comebacks are no good. You have to just keep singing. Or keep dancing.”
“The artist accepts the limitations of form, not with fear and dread, but as the starting point of creation.”

Source : Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.139, Penguin
“...I got to try the bagpipes. It was like trying to blow an octopus.”

Source : James Galway (1979). “James Galway”
“What's needed today, now, more than ever, is 'Star Peace' for there is an ominous, mutual threat to all science fiction. It's called 'Twilight'. And it is really, really bad,”
“Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.”

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