"Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about."

-- Tori Amos

#Reality Quotes #Our Generation Quotes #Generations Quotes

“Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved.”
“You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Sam Allardyce should learn a bit of humidity”
“There is an educational cliff we are walking over right this very second.”
“The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.”
“If you asked people, "Do you like jazz?" they would be like, "not at all." But I think that if you're really putting yourself out there and really communicating, music can put you beyond people's preconceptions, beyond their playlist.”

Source : "A New Standard: Kamasi Washington's Modern Jazz Revolution". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. June 9, 2015.
“Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.”
“Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would also carry infection to Africa through Asia Minor and Egypt, and to Europe through Italy and France, already threatened by the strongest domestic Communist parties in Western Europe. The Soviet Union was playing one of the greatest gambles in history at minimal cost. It did not need to will all the possibilities. Even one or two offered immense gains. We and we alone were in a position to break up the play.”

Source : "Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department". Book by Dean Acheson, 1969.

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