"Streetlife serenaders Have no obligations Hold no grand illusions Need no stimulation."

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Billy Joel

#Needs Quotes #Illusion Quotes #Stimulation Quotes

“And though I remember her name I cannot recall her face. All things pass.”

Source : John Christopher (2015). “The Sword of the Spirits”, p.109, Simon and Schuster
“I know what I say; I understand my mission and business. God Almighty is my shield; and what can man do if God is my friend?”
“If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism -- that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased.”

Source : "Walter Cronkite Review: 'Gawd Almighty,' Shout 'the Truths' of Liberalism" by Brent Baker, www.newsbusters.org. July 20, 2009.
“I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious effort, nor is it a struggle. Wouldn't do it if it was. The idea of the suffering artist has never appealed to me. Being here is suffering enough.”
“Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.”
“My research is like my feeling, directed towards what is the principle value in the life--the poetry.”
“The ones that you're calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.”
“It's easy to forget people are blood and bone. They're not indestructible.”

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