"Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied."

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Source : "An Interview With Janis Ian Plus This Week’s New Albums". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2009.

Janis Ian

#Self Quotes #People Quotes #Ignorant Quotes

“If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?”
“The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.”
“The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of structures by successive integrations.”
“If you bet on a horse, that's gambling. If you bet you can make three spades, that's entertainment. If you bet cotton will go up three points, that's business. See the difference?”
“City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.”
“Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.”
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person...Withou t concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.”
“The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are 'accept responsibility.'”

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