"I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected."

-- Roberta Flack

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“No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has.”
“I'm a guy desperately in need of buffers. I have big feelings, big reactions, big emotions. All the things that serve me as an artist, but challenge me as a socially-responsible human being.”

Source : "Kurt Sutter Quits Twitter Days After Controversial Frank Darabont, 'Mad Men' Rant" by Lindsay Powers, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 15, 2011.
“I would like to outlaw contraception... contraception is disgusting - people using each other for pleasure.”
“I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of toys, the same number of meatballs on your spaghetti, the same share of love. But being a mother is completely different. You want your child to have more than you ever did. You want to build a fire underneath her and watch her soar. It's bigger than words.”
“In the luxuriance of a bowl of grapes set out in ritual display, in a bottle of wine, the soil and sunshine of California reached millions for whom that distant place would henceforth be envisioned as a sun-graced land resplendent with the goodness of the fruitful earth.”

Source : Kevin Starr (1986). “Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era”, p.134, Oxford University Press
“The claim is also sometimes made that science is as arbitrary or irrational as all other claims to knowledge, or that reason itself is an illusion. As Ethan Allen said Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason; if with reason, then they establish the principle that they are labouring to dethrone. If they argue without reason, which they must do, in order to be consistent with themselves, they are out of reach of rational conviction, nor do they deserve a rational argument.”
“I don't want to write without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me.”
“If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything.”

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