"I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public opinion takes a route far from one's inner conviction, one cannot value disobedience too highly."

-- Barbara Dana

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“I send messages to the White House continuously”

Source : "John King, USA", edition.cnn.com. May 7, 2012.
“I don't think I have enough of an interest in today's cultural mood to connect with or reject it. I'm compelled by the ideas that arrive when I'm not trying, and I follow them through almost every time. I feel fortunate that these days, there are a lot of them. You could argue that they are informed by everything I'm experiencing culturally around me but I don't, for example, look online for new music or art very often, and I don't think there is much in contemporary culture for me. It's a needle in a haystack kind of thing, and I'd rather spend that time working on a new song.”

Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com
“And, I wouldn't consider myself to be a natural pilot; I've had to work at it.”
“Knowledge of any value can't be given. It must be sought and earned”
“If I could change the attitude of young men toward literature, I would want them to read not just for escape, but because literature can be more truthful about things like sex, commitment, and aging. It can be more truthful about the stuff that our parents lied to us (and themselves) about, and the stuff that everyone has to lie about. It can all be dealt with truthfully in fiction and poetry.”
“I want to solve a climbing problem in the mountains, not in the sporting goods store.”
“I am someone who thinks that if you've got an actor like that who wants to perform your work, then you should do it, and hopefully Tom [Hardey] likes to do the work that I do, so long may it continue.”
“Big Bang is what made me who I am today. With them, I laugh the most, and I feel like I can achieve things”

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