"I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics."

-- Natalie Merchant

#Writing Quotes #Labor Quotes

“If I had a dollar for every time I couldnâ€™t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.”
“The blame for [the national debt] lies with the Congress and the President, with Democrats and Republicans alike, most all of whom have been unwilling to make the hard choices or to explain to the American people that there is no such thing as a free lunch.”
“The standard of beauty is not definite. We define it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Shamcey Supsup from Apr 10, 2011
“Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time.”
“Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women, policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes. And the stereotypical view of people of a world divided between home and child caring women and men as breadwinners, men representing the family outside the home.”
“I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.”
“For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.”
“Everything that would begin to make somebody a good student would tend to make him or her a poor artist, and vice versa.”

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