"Who one was, where one came from, what one was expected to be, the height of courage and character that were to be achieved, were woven into the fabric that linked oneself to all. . ."

-- Nathan Huggins

#Character Quotes #Fabric Quotes #Height Quotes

“It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own.”
“We have to get good at being with ourselves before we can hope to be good at being in relationships with others.”
“When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.”
“The membrane between where we are right now and a very different reality, is so much thinner than we like to think. Things can go back, and things can go to the side, and things can go to places where we might not even have been on guard that they might go. I think that if there is a great gift that this [Donald Trump] election gave us, is this sort of sense of vigilance, the sense that we have to remain on guard. We have to support our free press.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“Shared laughter creates a bond of friendship.”
“We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic [AIDS] every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us, as if nothing is happening, going on with their own lives and not knowing what it's like, what we're going through. We're living through war, but where they're living it's peacetime, and we're all in the same country.”

Source : The Normal Heart act 2, sc. 11 (1985)
“Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible--it's to dismantle those systems.”

Source : Lierre Keith (2009). “The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability”, p.265, PM Press
“The interesting trick of comedy, in a lot of ways, is to have both the comedy and the grounding of the real thing. You get a real sense of a human being.”

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