"Bottom line, if people don't say what they believe, those ideas and feelings get lost. If they are lost often enough, those ideas and feelings never return."

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Source : David Wojnarowicz (2014). “Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration”, p.87, Open Road Media

David Wojnarowicz

#Believe Quotes #Ideas Quotes #People Quotes

“I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.”
“But if anyone so much as threatened them because of what Kaia had once done, she would turn the Slumber Party Massacre into Blood, Bath and Beyond, a documentary by Kaia Skyhawk.”
“Dance music is one of the biggest export products in the Dutch economy these days.”
“As you can imagine, over the years I have been asked many times to discuss and explain my song "American Pie" I have never discussed the lyrics, but have admitted to the Holly reference in the opening stanzas. You will find many interpretations of my lyrics but none of them by me. ... Sorry to leave you all on your own like this but long ago I realized that songwriters should make their statements and move on, maintaining a dignified silence.”
“We're free out here, really free for the first time. We're floating, literally. Gravity can't bow our backs or break our arches or tame our ideas. You know, it's only out here that stupid people like us can really think. The weightlessness gets our thoughts and we can sort them. Ideas grow out here like nowhere else - it's the right environment for them. Anyone can get into space, if he wants to hard enough. The ticket is a dream.”
“I am determined to go through the horror of this world.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The US government should not be in the business of discrimination.”
“I have a degree in finance and these things kind of all go beyond me in a sense. I have a degree from a long time ago before computers.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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