"Nowadays New-York is not the exciting place it used to be. It still has great energy; I still put my finger in the socket. But it doesn't feel alive, cracking with that synergy between the art world and music world and fashion world that was happening in the 80s. A lot of people died."

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Madonna Ciccone

#Fashion Quotes #Art Quotes #New York Quotes

“I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.”
“The sun is shining, mynah birds are chattering, palm trees are swaying, so what. I'm in the hospital and I'm healthy. My heart is beating as it should. My brain is firing off messages that are loud and clear. My wife is on the upright hospital bed, positioned the way people sleep on airplanes, her body stiff, head cocked to the side. Her hands on her lap.”
“I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road.”

Source : Song: Lost Ones
“A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident risks an even larger loss of life and liberty.”
“To attract men, I wear a perfume called 'New Car Interior.'”
“There are two kinds of people. Those who climb mountains and those who sit in the shadow of the mountains and critique the climbers.”
“Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.”
“Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.”

Source : "Jinnah of Pakistan". Book by Stanley Wolpert, 1984.

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