"We each begin in innocence. We all become guilty."

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Source : Leonard Peltier (2016). “Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance”, p.16, St. Martin's Griffin

Leonard Peltier

#Innocence Quotes #Guilty Quotes

“If there's a severe recession, the automatic stabilizers will come into effect, and we will still try to reduce the structural deficit, but we will not try to keep cutting the budget so that we keep worsening a severe recession.”
“I wasn't brought up with any religion, actually.”

Source : "A White-Striped Trip: 'Get Behind Me Satan'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 09, 2005.
“If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be.”
“When you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won't greet twice.”
“We're living in a funny world kid, a peculiar civilization. The police are playing crooks in it, and the crooks are doing police duty. The politicians are preachers, and the preachers are politicians. The tax collectors collect for themselves. The Bad People want us to have more dough, and the good people are fighting to keep it from us. It's not good for us, know what I mean? If we had all we wanted to eat, we'd eat too much. We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry. That's the way I understand it. That's about the size of some of the arguments I've heard.”
“There is indeed a level of improvisation where we can distort and shuffle the music patterns, samples, and loops in each phase of the show within fixed cue points, but at the same time there is a constant result that we are trying to achieve each night while performing and operating our system - quite similar in spirit to a broadway show for example: If you go see a musical two nights in a row, the performances are different yet similar.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The quickest, simplest, and most powerful way I know to handle any emotion is to remember a time when you felt a similar emotion and realize that you've successfully handled this emotion before.”
“I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.”

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