"Given a choice between hearing my daughter say "I'm pregnant" or "I used a condom", most mothers would get up in the middle of the night and buy them herself."

-- Joycelyn Elders

#Mother Quotes #Daughter Quotes #Witty Quotes

“Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.”
“In societies where modern conditions of productions prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into representation. The images detached from every aspect of life fuse in a common stream in which the unity of this life can no longer be re-established. Reality considered partially unfolds, in its own general unity as a pseudo-world apart, an object of mere contemplation . . . The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.”

Source : Guy Debord (1994). “The Society of the Spectacle”, Zone Books (NY)
“The future is always a dystopia in movies.”

Source : Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.
“Isn't hope an incredible, a wonderfully demented thing?”
“Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.”
“You are loved. You are valuable. You are crafted with beauty and purpose. I treasure you and this world needs you. There is no one like you. You donâ€™t need to look like the rest or talk like the rest or be like the rest. This worlds needs you as you are. There is no truth in the lie that you donâ€™t matter. You are loved. You were put here for a reason. You were not an accident. You are not a mistake.”
“If destiny could bring two people together, then it could just as easily tear them apart, and, if it could tear two people apart, then it could just as easily bring them back together again. There was no beginning, middle and end to destiny. It wasn't neat and manageable. It was random and scary.”
“Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.”

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