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“I am a critic who is pulled toward history. But Bob Dylan himself is a great historian. He is an historian who acts out history. So it always has a personal stamp. It always has a particular timbre. It always has a particular howl, or a moan, in that voice.”
Source : "Talkin’ Bob Dylan". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 19, 2010.
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“Economic analysis is the first principle of Marxism. Professors who were genuine leftists would have challenged the entire economics-driven machinery of American academe the wasteful multidepartmental structure, the divisive pedantry of overspecialization, the cronyism and sycophancy in recruitment and promotion, the boondoggling ostentation of pointless conferences, the exploitation of graduate students and part-time teachers, the subservience of faculty to overpaid administrators, the mediocrity and folly of the ruling cliques of the Modern Language Association.”
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“You cannot stop the human mind from working.”
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“I like to have a peek, see what the audience is doing during the opening act, because it gives you a clue and gives you a good feeling of where you are - the air can be different in different places.”
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“if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise.”
Source : Johnnetta B. Cole (2011). “Conversations: Straight Talk with America's Sister President”, p.9, Anchor
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“I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.”
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“Every time you post something online you have a choice. You can either make it something that adds to the happiness levels in the world-or you can make it something that takes away.”
Source : Zoe Sugg (2016). “Girl Online: The First Novel by Zoella”, p.333, Simon and Schuster
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“It ought to be a crime for any woman to have children that writes books.”
Source : Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon (1910). “The Biography of a Boy”