"Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver."

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Mary Karr

#Children Quotes #World Quotes #Gulliver Quotes

“Even on guitars I've had misfortunes. I never used to clip the strings on my guitar and then one day I accidentally poked my right eye with the E-string. My eye just wouldn't stop tearing up and I could barely keep it open. The doctor said I didn't do any major damage, but I had to wear a patch for a little while. I still have a tiny red mark on my eyeball from it; I'm still not sure it's the same.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.”
“So it's not really whether you talk about politics, but how well were you able to do it. Peter Gabriel and Sting get away with it...U2...the examples are there, of people being able to carry these subjects in the music, and the audience is absolutely able to embrace subjects that aren't just the stuff they already know about. And they're actually able to learn stuff.”
“You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.”
“You know how to vanquish, Hannibal, but you do not know how to profit from victory.”
“Marketing's job is never done. It's about perpetual motion. We must continue to innovate every day.”

Source : "The quest for more creative, ambitious marketing - read the webchat again" by Matthew Caines, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2016.
“For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.”
“The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance”

Source : "A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism". Book by Daniel Byman, p. 170, June 15, 2011.

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