"Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within."

-- Stephen Jay Gould

#Hope Quotes #Fear Quotes #Lying Quotes

“Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don't pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it happens. I hate that auditioning thing.”

Source : "My mind is as blank as fresh snow" by John Aizlewood, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2001.
“The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.”
“I've given lots of people chances," she said suddenly, as if Marion was still in the room to hear us. "But there's only so much faith you can have in people.”
“It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten.”
“You can accomplish a hundred other things but if you do not accomplish the one thing for which you have been sent, it will be as if you have done nothing.”
“It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through the heat, stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial.”

Source : "Black History Is American History" by Rep. Yvette D. Clarke, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2010.
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
“I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger rail right here in the United States of America.”

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