"Ill teach you everything I know If you teach me how to do that dance. Life is short and quid pro quo. And whats so strange about a down-home family romance?"
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"Times are hard, Youre afraid to pay the fee. So you find yourself somebody Who can do the job for free. When you need a bit of lovin, Cause your man is out of town, Thats the time you get me runnin And you know Ill be around.Im a fool to do your dirty work Oh yeah. I dont wanna do your dirty work No more. Im a fool to do your dirty work Oh yeah."
"Any major dude with half a heart surely will tell you my friend Any minor world that breaks apart falls together again."
"You been tellin me youre a genius Since you were seventeen. In all the time Ive known you, I still dont know what you mean. The weekend at the college Didnt turn out like you planned. The things that pass for knowledge I cant understand.Are you reelin in the years? Stowin away the time? Are you gatherin up the tears? Have you had enough of mine?"
"Now you swear and kick and beg us That youre not a gamblin man. Then you find youre back in Vegas With a handle in your hand. Your black cards can make you money, So you hide them when youre able. In the land of milk and honey You must put them on the table.You go back, Jack do it again, Wheel turnin round and round. You go back, Jack do it again."
"It was still September When your daddy was quite surprised To find you with the working girls In the county jail. I was smoking with the boys upstairs When I heard about the whole affair. I said oh no, William and Mary wont do.Well I did not think the girl Could be so cruel. And Im never going back To my old school."
"Ill learn to work the saxophone. Ill play just what I feel. Drink Scotch whiskey all night long, And die behind the wheel. They got a name for the winners in the world. I want a name when I lose. They call Alabama the Crimson Tide; Call me Deacon Blues."
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi"we are engaged in a grim experiment never before attempted. We are subjecting whole populations to exposure to chemicals which animal experiments have proved to be extremely poisonous and in many cases cumulative in their effect. These exposures now begin at or before birth and-unless we change our methods-will continue through the lifetime of those now living. No one knows what the result will be, because we have no previous experience to guide us."
"pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease: your victim (death and life safely beyond) plays with the bigness of his littleness"
E. E. Cummings"I believe that the unity of man as opposed to other living things derives from the fact that man is the conscious life of himself. Man is conscious of himself, of his future, which is death, of his smallness, of his impotence; he is aware of others as others; man is in nature, subject to its laws even if he transcends it with his thought."
Erich Fromm"“We need brains, is the bottom line,” Ivy said. “We’re not hunter-gatherers anymore. We’re all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a hospital. What keeps us alive isn’t bravery, or athleticism, or any of those other skills that were valuable in a caveman society. It’s our ability to master complex technological skills. It is our ability to be nerds. We need to breed nerds.”"
"I have been clinically depressed for most of my life. I once used drugs to fix it. Then I stopped. I stopped because I decided they were making me stupid, and Id rather be miserable than stupid. I am what I am."