"I was almost impeached for getting cars off sidewalks which car owning upper classes had illegally appropriated for parking."

-- Enrique Penalosa

#Upper Class Quotes #Car Quotes #Parking Quotes

“When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit.”
“In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance.”
“What I find fascinating … you have to give David Stern and the NBA a lot of credit … ESPN pays the league, and then the league tells them what to do. It’s more ESPN’s problem. You gotta have no balls whatsoever to pay someone hundreds of millions of dollars and let them run your business.”
“I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.”
“An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.”
“Meditation is hard. You are constantly trying to focus on one thing, usually your breath, and your mind is going to go berserk.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out.”

Source : "I can't completely let go of drugs - and I don't want to" by Mat Snow, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2006.
“I was exhilarated by the new realization that I could change the character of my life by changing my beliefs. I was instantly energized because I realized that there was a science-based path that would take me from my job as a perennial â€œvictimâ€ to my new position as â€œco-creatorâ€ of my destiny. (Prologue, xv)”

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