"People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there's a deep anxiety going on."

-- Nick Cave

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Anxiety Quotes

“So, just for one more merry day To the great Tree the leaflets clung, Frolicked and danced and had their way, Upon the autumn breezes swung.”

Source : Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, “How The Leaves Came Down”
“The civil jury is a valuable safeguard to liberty.”
“I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.”
“Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life.”
“You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.”
“This was on my vision board. To run out there and be hitting game winners, getting the fans riled up. When they're stomping on the floor yelling 'New York Knicks'â€”that's a great feeling.”
“In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.”

Source : "A Kwanzaa Celebration" by Angela Shelf Medearis, (p. 154), 1995.
“Of all the questions about the future of leadership that we can raise for ourselves, we can be certain in our answer to only one: 'Who will lead us?' The answer, of course, is that we will be lead by those we have taught, and they will lead us as we have shown them they should.”

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