"Well, [bluntness in songwriting]'s a lot cheaper than therapy.... There's been a lot of things going on for the past 10 years that I just never really confronted, or used metaphors to do so. This time out I wanted to make sure that everyone knows what I'm talking about and where I'm coming from."

-- Brent Smith

#Writing Quotes #Past Quotes #Talking Quotes

“If God allows you to be stripped of the exterior portions of your life, He means for you to cultivate the interior”
“Whenever I have found myself stuck in the ways I relate to things, I return to nature. It is my principal teacher, and I try to open my whole being to what it has to say.”

Source : Wynn Bullock, Barbara Bullock-Wilson (1984). “Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning”, Gibbs Smith
“There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.”
“Art is rearranging and grouping mistakes.”
“In a democracy, every ordinary citizen is effectively a king--but a king in a constitutional democracy, a monarch who decides only formally, whose function is merely to sign off on measures proposed by an executive administration. This is why the problem with democratic rituals is homologous to the great problem of constitutional monarchy: how to protect the dignity of the king? How to maintain the appearance that the king effectively makes decisions, when we all know this not to be true?”
“Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.”
“I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.”
“Today, Iraq is an immediate danger to our nation. This time, we cannot wait. We cannot wait for Saddam Hussein to take a devastating action or to transfer a weapon of mass destruction to someone else who will. After September 11th, it is simply no longer an option to sit back and contemplate an enemy - one with a stated intent to harm us, a track record and the means, and just wait for him to strike in order to protect ourselves.”

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