"For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and other environment-related variables is the main challenge to China's continued development."

-- James Fallows

#Air Quotes #Safety Quotes #Water Quotes

“I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.”
“Not that a poem can "hurt" someone the same way a physical blow can or even a mean remark can...I just felt unsure that my tone would be taken the right way and/or unsure of my own writing, that I couldn't maintain the tone I wanted.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.”

Source : Quoted in Machlis Introduction to Contemporary Music (1963).
“Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients.”
“A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.”
“I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.”
“The NYPD with the unconditional support of Mayor Michael Bloomberg has stopped-and-frisked more black men than there are black men in New York City. Institutionalized racial discrimination in the United States is alive and well.”
“Innovation implies high risk, and with high risk comes failure, so you've got to be prepared for that, but if you don't risk, then your business goes stale very quickly.”

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