"It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation."

-- Camille Paglia

#Independent Quotes #Careers Quotes #America Quotes

“I'm basically the idea person. I'm not physically involved in the production. I don't have the necessary abilities, so I go to the top people.”

Source : Interview with Klaus Ottmann, www.jca-online.com. October 1986.
“Compassion is the ability to see what needs doing right now and the willingness to do it right now.”

Source : Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.67, Simon and Schuster
“The Ethiops say that their gods are flat-nosed and black, While the Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair. â€œIf oxen and horses and lions had hands and were able to draw with their hands and do the same things as men, horses would draw the shapes of gods to look like horses and oxen would draw them to look like oxen, and each would make the gods' bodies have the same shape as they themselves had.”
“Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.”
“One of the silliest lines ever said in a feature film came from Love Story, the 1970s hit, which immortalized the phrase, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." There are few people who would actually want to share a life with someone who held that concept near and dear.”
“I can direct dial today a man my parents warred with. They wanted to kill him, I want to sell software to him.”
“French was the only language we had in common, and even that was like a dialect we had picked up at a rummage sale, rusty and missing a lot of essential parts.”
“A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'”

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