"The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business. That we must support a government agency that gives itself to the emotional and ideological manipulation of citizens is infamous."

-- Richard Mitchell

#Children Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Government Quotes

“Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.”
“There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive of me of a North American writer, not being white and brought up on wheat germ. My fiction got lost.”
“I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't people, I don't need anything, cameras, I just have myself and my guitar, or keyboard.”
“We like the idea of childhood but are not always crazy about the kids we know. We like it, that is, when we are imagining our ownchildhoods. So part of our apparent appreciation of youth is simply envy.”
“Eventually, I want to finish my degree.”
“Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss or the fierce individuality of passion with the dulling universal certainty of platitude.”
“I still think people will find out that Iâ€™m really not very talented. Iâ€™m really not very good. Itâ€™s all been a big sham.”
“We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.”

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