"I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve years ago, there was a strong resurgence of Nazism in the places we were touring and part of that was on the music scene."

-- Marc Ribot

#Strong Quotes #Years Quotes #Political Quotes

“When you come to me, wear these. On a good day, prettily.”
“The idea of celebrity is becoming more and more appealing to people.”
“I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.”
“There's no such thing as quality time; there's only quantity time.”

Source : Steve Schirripa (2014). “Big Daddy's Rules: Raising Daughters Is Tougher Than I Look”, p.111, Simon and Schuster
“There are but a few blood purifiers and these are all in the body. We know them as the liver, kidneys, lungs, colon, and a few glands.”
“The recently ended twentieth century was characterized by a level of human rights violations unparalleled in all of human history. In his book Death by Government, Rudolph Rummel estimates some 170 million government-caused deaths in the twentieth century. The historical evidence appears to indicate that, rather than protecting life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of their citizens, governments must be considered the greatest threat to human security.”
“How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful machines, the good earth is our mother and that if we destroy her, we destroy ourselves?”
“Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.”

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