"if the main reason we listen to music in the first place is to hear passion expressed- as i've believed all my life-then what good is this music going to prove to be? what does that say about us? what are we confirming in ourselves by doting on art that is emotionally neutral? and, simultaneously, what in ourselves might we be destroying or at least keeping down?"

-- Lester Bangs

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“A lady, that is an enlightened, cultivated, liberal lady - the only kind to be in a time of increasing classlessness - could espouse any cause: wayward girls, social diseases, unmarried mothers, and/or birth control with impunity. But never by so much as the shadow of a look should she acknowledge her own experience with the Facts of Life.”

Source : Virgilia Peterson (1961). “A Matter of Life and Death”, Bantam Books
“Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education.”
“People like scandals.”

Source : "Blanka Vlasic mixes mischief with medals as she aims for clean sweep". Interview with Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2010.
“I do remember at my very first opening in 1979 another artist coming up to me, and he was haranguing me, saying, "Did you really intend for these things to be so dumb? You just put it there and took a picture of it." He wouldn't let it go. So that's what made me think about the dumbness aspect more.”
“Taken out of context I must seem so strange.”
“Ill health is also a blessing. The flesh and the ego are weakened and contemplation of God becomes easier.”
“The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why al Qaeda was there in the first place.”
“I occasionally got called the Rush Limbaugh of Indiana, but most people knew that my style was different.”

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