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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 35757bc | Dukowski replied. "The easy solution isn't a solution, it's the fucking problem. It's too easy to have someone tell you what to do. It is harder to make your own decision. We put a certain amount of trust into the people that come to see us." -- | Michael Azerrad | ||
| 0490326 | says Ginn. "I never considered it rough. I considered it not having money, but I always think, if you're asleep on a floor, how can you tell the difference anyway--you're asleep." | Michael Azerrad | ||
| 5a1daf8 | Fired up by the punk explosion, they wrote their first song--"Storming Tarragona." Named after the down-at-heel housing development where Boon lived, the song was about tearing down the projects and building real houses for people to live in. Boon and Watt, it turned out, had a powerful populist streak. "D. Boon didn't think our dads got a fair shake," Watt says, "and I think he was kind of railing against that ever since." | Michael Azerrad | ||
| abb5943 | the cover of Land Speed Record is a photo of the coffins of the first eight soldiers killed in Vietnam; like many punks, the members of Husker Du actually agreed with Sixties counterculture values but despised the hippies for selling out those values. "We're doing the same thing that the peace movement did in the Sixties," Mould said, "but the way they did it didn't work." | Michael Azerrad | ||
| bfc2384 | Sometimes the Minutemen got grief for being their own road crew. "But I never thought that you should play up to 'the princeling,' " says Watt, referring to the prototypical pampered rock star. "So what if nobody sees you playing the fuckin' hero or the star. I never fancied myself like that." | Michael Azerrad | ||
| 18d33a2 | says Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo. "People got this idea that ultimately what mattered was the quality of what you were doing and how much importance you gave to it, regardless of how widespread it became or how many records it sold." | Michael Azerrad | ||
| 02c17d1 | But what on earth had possessed her, to take a wagon this far beyond nowhere? When | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 1c05d5e | There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere. | Bertrand Russell | ||
| 8a92230 | I've grown to think that keeping your desk clean is actually probably a sign that you're not being effective. | Joel Spolsky | ||
| d48ea08 | Isaac Asimov's Foundation | Orson Scott Card | ||
| c00b61b | There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote. | Bertrand Russell | ||
| 440d908 | Why? Surely they can find other men. | Bertrand Russell | ||
| 694a272 | Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken. | Bertrand Russell | ||
| 4b111ac | Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure... | Bertrand Russell | ||
| 04083ea | Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. | Bertrand Russell | ||
| cd33840 | Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood. | Beryl Bainbridge | ||
| 85f30e5 | Sometimes love is a pie. There just isn't enough to go around. Or OK, maybe there is enough love, but not enough time and attention, so you have to grab your piece, and then the pie smashes and you're fighting for crumbs... | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 8358832 | Luckily Sumac has extra Rakhi in her pocket and hands them out to anyone who wants one, because really, who cares so long as the threads get tied. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 59f6a79 | Before the white man became universally disliked for his mental outlook it was there. | Bessie Head | ||
| 91c2ad7 | I think to love bravely is the best. | Best | ||
| a391875 | The Holy Spirit will never guide you into defeat! He will always guide you into victory, success, accomplishment, abundant life, soundness, happiness, and security--both in the spirit and in the natural. | Roberts Liardon | ||
| ea441ab | It's just that one thing I've learned from all of this is that we don't have very much time here on Earth. So why waste it putting up with other people's crap? | Meg Cabot | ||
| 04253e1 | The Pentecostal experience that exploded at 312 Azusa Street creat ed a paradigm shift that infused new energy and passion into a lifeless, liturgical Christianity. Pentecostals owe a great deal to those pioneers who have gone before. To them we dedicate our renewed energy to continue what they started. ENDNOTES | Roberts Liardon | ||
| c53415d | The practice of prayer and fasting was paramount to club membership. This one ingredient may have been the critical characteristic that caused the Wesleys, along with Whitefield and others, to emerge as such powerful forces for Christ. | Roberts Liardon | ||
| d31ad6d | A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself. | Best | ||
| 31f2158 | To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. | Best | ||
| 3d76d0d | Only me. It had always only been me. I'd just needed to believe in her. In me. | paranatural paranormal self-esteem self-love supernatural | Meg Cabot | |
| d74b21f | The way to develop the best in a man is by appreciation and encouragement. | Best | ||
| 4b68812 | I wanna be the very best Like no one ever was | Best | ||
| 29ffcf7 | Real music soars above class society. | Beth Anderson | ||
| 3f617a0 | You already know he's a pathetic excuse for a man and you deserve better. | Jill Mansell | ||
| 710b71b | I wasn't seeing much of a long-term career in waitressing--which, for a girl who doesn't even like standing up to wash her hair, can be brutal-- | Meg Cabot | ||
| d4b2433 | How many times do I have to tell you, Amelia? Men are like little woodland creatures. You have to lure them to you with tiny breadcrumbs and soft words of encouragement. You cannot simply whip out a rock and conk them over the head with it. | love men | Meg Cabot | |
| 8023f0f | Dopey, in out of his depth, began to look desperate. "Debbie Mancuso," he yelled, "and I are not having sex!" I saw my mom and Andy exchange a quick, bewildered glance. "I should certainly hope not," Doc, Dopey's little brother, said as he breezed past us. "But if you are, Brad, I hope you're using condoms. While a good-quality latex condom has a failure rate of about two percent when used as directed, typically the failure rate averages cl.. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 7e895c0 | Sometime, the only way you can make someone listen is with your fist. This is not a technique espoused, I know by the diagnostic manuals on most therapists' shelves. Then again nobody ever said I was a therapist. | listen therapist therapy violence | Meg Cabot | |
| a5df092 | It's Important to Try to Make Your Friends Feel Good About Themselves as Often as Possible. Then They'll Like You Better | Meg Cabot | ||
| 2c0e67f | We'd be the Joystick Order. Out motto would be High Score for One, Pizza for All. | humour joystick pizza | Meg Cabot | |
| 50cea5b | All those guys on the wrestling team, though - they scare me. And they're so homophobic... well, you can't help wondering about their sexual orientation, I mean they all think I'm gay, but you wouldn't catch me in a pair of tights grabbing some other guys inner thigh. | sexual-orientation wrestling | Meg Cabot | |
| d51be85 | I know they have palm trees in Southern California. I mean I'm not a complete moron, I've watched 90210, and everything. | california palm-trees | Meg Cabot | |
| de3eb64 | There's no such thing as crazy. There's no such thing as normal, either. | normal | Meg Cabot | |
| a23fffa | Here at Shenanigans Neighborhood Bar and Grill, we don't put up with actual shenanigans. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 06bc452 | If you have the right shoes, you can do anything. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 61af782 | Parenthood is the most difficult, demanding job in the entire world, | Meg Cabot | ||
| 70bed87 | It's like I've struck a blow for dweebs everywhere, or something. | Meg Cabot |