"The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school district I was in included some fine neighborhoods - so I got to know a couple of the kids from those places and went to their houses and experienced such culture shock."

-- Lynda Barry

#Couple Quotes #School Quotes #Kids Quotes

“I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.”
“The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intended. We live in a corporate dictatorship represented by, and beholden to, no single human being you can reason with or hold responsible for anything.”

Source : "There Is Only One Issue In America" by Steven Van Zandt, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2011.
“More than any other personality trait, my mother seemed to be ruled by anger and sadness. She seemed to hate being a mother. Watching her unhappiness as I grew up made me conclude that the answer was to try and be as unemotional as I could, which many therapists have taught me is a bad idea. It also made me want to avoid marriage and having children.”
“Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw. It's just extraordinary that we should have been given these peculiarities. Something is ironic in the world and it has to do with the fact that what you intend never comes out like you intend it.”

Source : "Glenn Close and Rose Byrne's Fashion Face-Off" by Laura Morgan, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 16, 2009.
“What is gained by debt relief and aid can be lost if we don't get a proper trade agreement in Hong Kong,”
“Great art is cathartic; it is always moral.”
“The point of public relations slogans like 'Support our troops' is that they don't mean anything... That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. Its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something: Do you support our policy? That's the one you're not allowed to talk about.”
“I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old.”

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