"When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better."

-- Maya Angelou

#Hope Quotes #Honesty Quotes #Integrity Quotes

“Sometimes I'm trying to communicate a feeling. Sometimes I can't piece it together into any kind of coherant thesis. I'm just trying to evoke some kind of mood, and put some kind of idea in somebody's head. If Marshall McLuhan or Harold Innis were looking at it, they would tell you that the genre of rock music isn't the best way to deliver a political message because it distorts it, it makes it into entertainment. Perhaps the best political message is just to speak it to somebody. I think that's something I'm always writing about in songs, just how to mediate, how to present something.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“All things are difficult before they are easy.”
“It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.”
“Sometimes beauty can be a trap.”
“The most important thing is that you actually care, that you do something to the very best of your ability”
“When your daughter asks you to be a fairy for her 5th birthday party... you better be a damned fairy.”
“I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.”
“To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest.”

Source : Tyson and Brother v. Banton, 273 U.S. 418, (451), 1927.

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