"Maybe, there's a moment growing up when something peels back... Maybe, maybe, we look for secrets because we can't believe our mind."

-- Susanna Kaysen

#Growing Up Quotes #Believe Quotes #Secret Quotes

“Big money tries to purchase its own agenda. Money does too much talking in Washington. Every senator, every representative, even the president awakens each morning with a number in his head that will drive the whole day. The number is the amount of money that must [be] raised that day for his reelection. If he fails, the next day's number will be even higher.”
“We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.”
“Fear, as opposed to anxiety, has a definite object, which can be faced, analyzed, attacked, endured... anxiety has no object, or rather, in a paradoxical phrase, its object is the negation of every object.”
“Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country.”
“I'm kind of a one-note at a time, one finger keyboard player.”
“...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.”
“Never raise expectations in others that you cannot realize: promise is less pleasing than disappointment is vexatious.”
“Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides.”

Source : "Diva Cecilia Bartoli". Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. November 9, 1998.

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