"I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers."

-- Mother Jones

#California Quotes #Southern Quotes #Railroads Quotes

“Every year my family would pile into the car for our vacation and drive 80 trillion miles just to prove we couldn't get along in any setting.”
“I really would like to start a family as well. Whether I can balance the two or have to decide one or the other way, I'm not sure what will happen.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Certainty and similar states of â€˜knowing what we knowâ€™ arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of reason.”

Source : Robert A. Burton, M.D., M.D. (2008). “On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not”, p.7, Macmillan
“I think music needs danger; it needs risk.”
“I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me.”
“There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself.”
“...What you are is a force--a force that makes it possible for your body to live, a force that makes it possible for your whole mind to dream...You are life”
“The whole aspect of the universe changes with this new conception. The idea of force governing the world, of pre-established law, preconceived harmony, disappears to make room for the harmony that Fourier had caught a glimpse of: the one which results from the disorderly and incoherent movements of numberless hosts of matter, each of which goes its own way and all of which hold each other in equilibrium.”

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