"Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing."

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Source : "It's a Macy, Macy world" by Tim Cooper, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2001.

Macy Gray

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“Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.”

Source : William Falconer (1830). “A New and Universal Dictionary of the Marine: Being, a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Usually Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Machinery, Movements, and Military, as Well as Naval Operations of Ships: with Such Parts of Astronomy, and Navigation, as Will be Found Useful to Practical Navigators”, p.438
“Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.”
“I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.”
“The pilot says, "Where do you want to go?" and that's always a rather existential question, because naturally I think a bit about where I want to go, but of course I can't really know where I want to go, in advance. I know it when I see it.”
“Just the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking glass, making noise. Time goes by so quickly. Sometimes everything seems so fleeting.”
“Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.”
“The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty ... a man with no loyalty in him, with no sense of love or reverence or devotion due to something outside and above his poor daily life, with its pains and pleasures, profits and losses, is as evil a case as man can be.”
“Western civilization has been at war with tribalism for 3,000 years. And that war was brought to the New World by the English colonists. A very early point in American law Chief Justice John Marshall is asked to decide the status of Indian tribes. And what he does. He calls them savages who lack the same rights as the white people who came over here, the Europeans, and colonized their land under this, what many Americans might regard as an obscure legal doctrine called the Doctrine of Discovery. But it is still the most important doctrine in American constitutional law.”

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