"I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things."

-- Iris DeMent

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Attention Quotes

“Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.”
“To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.”

Source : "Economic Challenges: Past, Present, and Future". Speech at the Dallas Regional Chamber, Dallas, Texas, www.federalreserve.gov. April 07, 2010.
“If women took up arms to defend their reproductive rights, the GOP would ban assault rifles yesterday.”
“I used to think that elder love, if it even existed, was confined to rocking chairs or golf carts, that it had to be a dull business because of the physical limitations of age.”
“To that which is born, death is certain; to that which is dead, birth is certain.”

Source : L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (2010). “Gravity Dreams”, p.11, Macmillan
“The division yin and yang pervades all culture, history, economics, nature itself; modern Western versions of sex discrimination are only the most recent layer.”
“My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.”
“The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.”

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