Braudis Kansas Quotes & Sayings

We now have cultural machines so powerful that one singer can reach everybody in the world, and make all the other singers feel inferior because they're not like him. Once that gets started, he gets backed by so much cash and so much power that he becomes a monstrous invader from outer space, crushing the life out of all the other human possibilities. My life has been devoted to opposing that tendency. — Alan Lomax

In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned. — Nicolas Chamfort

I never ever played the lead role in a play, except at school. I guess the industry that we're in, boys that look like me don't get the lead role. — Mark Indelicato

You may think that hiding your pain from sight is somehow going to make it disappear. I can tell you from experience that it isn't. It is just like the time as a kid when you really didn't want to eat your greens. If you hid them underneath a piece of furniture, sooner or later your mum would discover them because all she had to do was follow the smell. Just like the broccoli, hidden issues begin to smell if they are not brought out into the open air. There is no escape. — Corallie Buchanan

I have a soft spot in my heart for tree houses, which have always imparted certain magic and practical knowledge. — Richard Louv

I get all excited when I think that someone's 1-900 sex call from a cell phone might be passing through my body right now. — David Henry

ou know chicks before dicks. Never choose a guy over a friend. It's one of the most important rules of feminism. — Rosalind Wiseman

Scared people either shut down and avoid the thing they fear, or get angry at it and lash out. — Leisa Rayven

I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian. — Robert Plant

My truths are all foreknown,This anguish self-revealed.I'm naked to the bone,With nakedness my shield. — Theodore Roethke

You have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful. — Katherine Paterson

Today, I will not wait for others to see and care; I will take responsibility for being aware of my pain and problems, and caring about myself. — Melody Beattie