"Bon Jovi's trick is to use heavy-metal chords and still sound absolutely safe. Rock & roll used to be rebellion disguised as commercialism; now so much of it is commercialism disguised as rebellion."

-- Michael Azerrad

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“Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.”
“I am much less concerned with whatever it is technology may be doing to people that what people are choosing to do to one another through technology. Facebook's reduction of people to predictively modeled profiles and investment banking's convolution of the marketplace into an algorithmic battleground were not the choices of machines.”
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
“I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.”

Source : Barnett Newman, John Philip O'Neill (1992). “Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.21, Univ of California Press
“I've decided to retire from top class racing. It has been an incredible experience and has provided with me some unforgettable moments.”
“The patience and ability to work through a long series of steps - to figure things out - is a foundation for the child's creative life later on.”
“It is really so nice here-country-busy-busy with so many different kinds of things-... I must say I feel far away in another world here-... always we go to a new place...the people have a kind of gentleness that isn't usual on the mainland.”
“But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight / Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight.”

Source : Song: Lovers In A Dangerous TIme

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