"What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her."

-- Jamaica Kincaid

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“A tour is the most intense, stimulating way to hear music; it's the best form to receive it. There's genuine excitement from people. I feel like we've stepped up a level.”
“Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.”
“That's a good question. I think there should be many other women CEO s. It feels natural to be a CEO of WellPoint, and part of the reason may be that women may be drawn to healthcare as a profession. Women make 70 percent of all healthcare decisions. Women are currently available-ready, willing, and able-to be CEOs of major Fortune 50 or 500 companies. And I expect them to emerge as such over the days, weeks, and months ahead.”
“Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.”
“With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.”
“Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.”
“If Christ is not ALL to you he is NOTHING to you”
“When so many of our dreams had come true and yet I still saw that so many of my friends were in a lot of pain... I saw their pain from a different perspective and realized that I can't just sing my way out of all this suffering. I have to try to understand human nature and myself and the nature of suffering and a lot of these other issues on a deeper level.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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