"With all due respect to Mick Jagger, who is one of my idols, I think it's a mistake to leap around and sing at 53. When I started, there weren't any women I looked up to. It was Mick. I never saw anybody go on a stage and have that tongue-in-cheek attitude. It was all straight, including the Beatles. I love his attitude, hands on hips and lips out."

-- Grace Slick

#Attitude Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Each being is sacred -- meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being.”
“The actor is not quite a human being-but then, who is?”
“I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.”

Source : Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.169, Pan Macmillan
“Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.”
“I became alcoholic at around age of 13 or 14. I was full-blown. Every day we would hide the alcohol, stealing from stores or stealing it from our parents and hiding out in dirt fields and drinking it before school and after school.”
“My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.”
“Vision is the Source and hope of life.Â The greatest gift ever given to mankind is not the gift of sight, but the gift of vision.Â Sight is a function of the eyes; vision is a function of the heart. â€˜Eyes that look are common, but eyes that see are rare.â€™Â Nothing noble or noteworthy on earth was ever done without vision.”
“I worry that friends will slowly become professional pallbearers, waiting for each death, of their lovers, friends and neighbors, and polishing their funeral speeches; perfecting their rituals of death rather than a relatively simple ritual of life such as screaming in the streets.”

Source : David Wojnarowicz (2017). “Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration”, p.113, Canongate Books

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