"Every ethnic group thinks they are the chosen ones. â€¦"

-- Harvey Pekar

#Thinking Quotes #Groups Quotes #Chosen One Quotes

“If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits.”
“Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.”

Source : Paul Fussell (1984). “Class”
“My goals are to tell meaningful stories through songs and touch people's lives... and hopefully make a living doing it.”
“Richard liked to say he picked things up for a song, which was odd, because he never sang. He never even whistled. He was not a musical person.”
“That idea of not being exactly who you write as is so crucial. Even looking at those words as I type them, it feels dirty, it feels like I'm admitting something. Unfortunately, I think that's how the conversation around nonfiction is so much of the time - either defensive or accusatory. Aha! You've been caught! But the original essence of something is always lost when it's reproduced.”
“Iâ€™m serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a time out from technological progress as we know it,”
“Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.”
“The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.”

Source : John Marshall, Joseph Potter Cotton (2000). “The Constitutional Decisions of John Marshall”, p.142, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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