"Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again."

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Source : "The Billboard Q&A: Yusuf Islam". Interview with Nigel Williamson, November 17, 2006.

Cat Stevens

#Healing Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Much is written about the Batman because he is publicly exposed in print. Very little is known personally about his creator, because I haven't given out that many interviews.”
“Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us all, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy as something not to be trusted, something to be purged. But it's in there, deep inside, a spark waiting to set a touch-paper alight.”
“The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.”
“Unless you have bad times, you can't appreciate the good times.”
“I wish I could take what I'm feeling right now and put it in the water system so everybody could drink it and we would all love each other.”

Source : "'Aviator' lands Golden Globe glory". www.cnn.com. January 17, 2005.
“Ah. Medieval-style ransom.â€ Toot looked confused. â€œHe did run some, but I stopped him, my lord. Like, just now. In front of you. Right over there.â€ There were several conspicuous sounds behind me, the loudest from my apprentice, and I turned to eye everyone else. They were all either covering smiles or holding them backâ€” poorly. â€œHey, peanut gallery,â€ I said. â€œThis isnâ€™t as easy as Iâ€™m making it look.â€ â€œYouâ€™re doing fine,â€ Karrin said, her eyes twinkling. I sighed. â€œCome on, Toot,â€ I said, and walked over to Hook.”
“Be at peace and see a clear pattern and plan running through your lives. Nothing is by chance.”
“Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.”

Source : "Fictional character: Terry Malloy". "On the Waterfront", www.imdb.com. 1954.

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