"People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are."

-- Nikki Sixx

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Lenses Quotes

“Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyles. We are saying no to wars and corporate takeover and the IMF loans that gobble up people and their resources.”

Source : "Run, Cynthia, run" by Derek Wall, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2008.
“People are increasingly using the Internet for easy price comparisons. Also, the reliability of delivery of a product bought over the Internet has increased.”
“Unfortunately, being physically equipped to hear has little to do with the actual predilection to listen. Sharing a common tongue does not ensure earnest or successful communication. Missed connections occur among hearing people all the time, splitting open countless minor chasms and yawning gulches, fissures that no vaccine or technilogical advance will ever be able to mend or prevent. That task will always fail to us.”
“What is government but theft by consent?”
“We must ask why apparently general musical abilities should be restricted to a chosen few in societies supposed to be culturally more advanced. Does cultural development represent a real advance in human sensitivity, or is it chiefly a diversion for elites and a weapon of class exploitation?”

Source : John Blacking (1974). “How Musical is Man?”, p.4, University of Washington Press
“I have one pug and one Czechoslovakian dog called Prazsky krysarik.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In a way, art has always been my way of problem-solving, of getting through situations, of finding my response to things, so to imagine doing something else makes me panic a little bit.”
“An institution which is financed by a budget - or which enjoys a monopoly which the customer cannot escape - is rewarded for what it deserves rather than what it earns. It is paid for 'good intentions' and 'programs'. It is paid for not alienating important constituents rather than satisfying any one group. It is misdirected by the way it is being paid into defining performance and results as what will produce the budget rather than as what will produce contribution.”

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