"Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion."

-- Annie Lennox

#Compassion Quotes #Empathy Quotes #Brutality Quotes

“I've always wanted children... not of my own, but for yard work and reaching into tight places to get things I've dropped.”
“wanted to highlight that to a certain extent and go deeper into that direction. I also try to write each song in a different key, so I can be as diverse as I can. I'm always trying to push the envelope and not be complacent or happy in one spot. As far as the grooves on this record are concerned, I think we just tried to experiment in that realm.”

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“I'll get up in the morning while they've all got hangovers and run my 5 miles. But the women who do run are usually 10 years younger than me and they're really obsessed about running. That's all they do. They're really boring.”
“To not to have entirely wasted oneâ€™s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.”
“Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon.”
“Do not think that it is possible to repeat another period.”
“Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.”
“I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.”

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