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Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is! — Michelle Shocked

I'm good at embroidery. It's what I always wanted to do ... Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery. — Lillian Hellman

The trouble with history, it seems to me, is that there are too many people involved. — Nick Hornby

I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins. — Jack Whitehall

My belief assumed a form that it commonly assumes among the educated people of our time. This belief was expressed by the word "progress." At the time it seemed to me that this word had meaning. Like any living individual, I was tormented by questions of how to live better. I still had not understood that in answering that one must live according to progress, I was talking just like a person being carried along in a boat by the waves and the wind; without really answering, such a person replies to the only important question-"Where are we to steer?"-by saying, "We are being carried somewhere. — Leo Tolstoy

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better. — Ron Reagan

I am a great scholar, my mind is full of wonders. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I am enamour'd of growing out-doors, Of men that live among cattle or taste of the ocean or woods, — Walt Whitman

The silence in our house now is born from the need for intense concentration, as we all carefully step around the truth we wish we didn't know, the person we can't help that Bo became, the future we're all afraid is collapsing around us, falling as silent and cold and crushing as snow. — Beth Revis

Here again the Japanese method of interior decoration differs from that of the Occident, where we see objects arrayed symmetrically on mantelpieces and elsewhere. In Western houses we are often confronted with what appears to us useless reiteration. We find it trying to talk to a man while his full-length portrait stares at us from behind his back. We wonder which is real, he of the picture or he who talks, and feel a curious conviction that one of them must be fraud. — Okakura Kakuzo

His worst fantasy her reality
he pulls the strings
does unspeakable things
A sadistic entrance
for his acceptance — Diana Rasmussen

When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it. — Dalai Lama XIV