"There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence."

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Source : "Getting Faster With Age: Sam Shepard’s New Velocity". Interview with Patrick Healy, www.nytimes.com. February 12, 2010.

Sam Shepard

#Thinking Quotes #Heritage Quotes #Way Quotes

“Usually the things we think we need become the very things we need a break from.”

Source : Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.115, B&H Publishing Group
“I think that a rap aficionado, the hardcore rap fan, will always go away from pop, in the same way a hardcore jazz fan will never think Kenny G is really a jazz artist. You gotta kind of know there's always going to be that purist who's going to be like if it ain't beats and rhymes, if there ain't a DJ, then that ain't Hip Hop.”
“Snowden has enough [sic] information to cause harm to the U.S. government in a single minute than any other person has ever had. The U.S. government should be on its knees every day begging that nothing happen to Snowden, because if something does happen to him, all the information will be revealed and it could be its worst nightmare.”
“All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.”
“Ive always had a fascination for animals. I loved watching them, and even then I thought of them as beings rather than pets. I call it a birth affect!”
“The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards.”

Source : H. P. Blavatsky (2011). “The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy”, p.274, Cambridge University Press
“You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension.”
“I was always one of those guys who was a seeker after truth. I want to know what's going on.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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