"I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have."

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Source : "'We've put in more hours than anyone': The Black Keys interviewed". Interview With Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.

Patrick Carney

#Mother Quotes #Cake Quotes #Parent Quotes

“The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened rather then undermined democratic forces.”
“There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council.”
“Nothing prepares a family for having multiple children at once.”
“Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God.”

Source : Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan
“To be a person is to have a story to tell.”
“It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.”
“Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm, syntax, image and metaphor. Reading it-the best of it-can create another, very different kind of perpetual present, an awareness that can be as ongoing in the soul as the stop-time of trauma.”
“I found fame to be somewhat of a prison. The more famous you were, the smaller the cell that you had to live in.”

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