"This was in San Francisco, in 1987. A bunch of kids were camped out in the Riviera Hotel - boy hustlers and their sugar daddy. One boy, Tank, showed us his gun. 'It's not loaded,' he said. He pointed the gun to his head, then out the window, and then to the ceiling. When the gun was pointed to the ceiling, he pulled the trigger and it went off. The gun was loaded after all."

-- Jim Goldberg

#Kids Quotes #Gun Quotes #Boys Quotes

“To change bad habits, we must study the habits of successful role models.”
“Trust is rebuilt by focusing not on what the other person did or did not do but on critiquing one's own behavior, improving one's trustworthiness, and focusing attention not on words and promises but on actions, attitudes, and ways of being.”
“I get a huge kick out of training people, out of helping people, out of just being a part of a process that I get to see people's dreams come true.”
“Experience seems to be the only thing of any value that's widely distributed.”
“Don't be in such a hurry.”
“In my own view, some advice about what should be known, about what technical education should be acquired, about the intense motivation needed to succeed, and about the carelessness and inclination toward bias that must be avoided is far more useful than all the rules and warnings of theoretical logic.”
“A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.”
“Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.”

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