"I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish."

-- George Crumb

#Littles Quotes #Determined Quotes

“There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.”
“...the chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself - is the enormous growth of the human population: the human flood. The worst enemy of life is too much life: the excess of human life.”

Source : Pentti Linkola (2011). “Can Life Prevail?”, p.122, Arktos
“If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.”

Source : Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.6, The New Press
“That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds.”

Source : Paul Brunton (1988). “Advanced contemplation: The peace within you”, Larson Pubn
“I had my house converted to the Colorado altitude, so I am always above sea level,”
“When are Christian folks going to remember that every time you call yourself a Christian, you invoke the name of God, and that if you then walk a walk that does not reflect the presence of Christ in your life, cast a vote that does not reflect the presence of Christ in your life, then you are taking the name of the Lord your God in vain?”
“You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.”
“I distinctly remember a conversation with my band in the van where I was having a complete meltdown. It was 1984, I think, and I was huddled in the back corner of our van and saying, "I can't do this. I can't do this. I can't do this." I didn't want to play any more shows. I just wanted to stop.”

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