Hardcore groups were singing songs about Ronald Reagan. I wasn't interested in this and preferred to sing about the darkness shimmering beneath the shiny quilt of American pop culture. I suppose you could say that Sonic Youth was always trying to defy people's expectations.
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.
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Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others...
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Paulo Coelho
I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations.
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Bill Watterson
The fruit of empty hopes is more bitter than the saddest truth.
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Angel Wagenstein
Yes, sex is troublesome and beautiful. And only when we drop our expectations, and know that we'll have moments of great sex and moments when our sexuality confounds, pains, or infuriates us, will we be liberated to enjoy it in a way that's true to...
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Alexandra Katehakis
More Quotes By Kim Gordon
When people ask me what L.A. was like in the sixties, I tell them there wasn't as much terrible stucco as there is today: no mini malls with their approximation of Spanish two-story buildings, no oversized SUVs bulging out of parking-space lines. What used to...
Marriage is a long conversation, someone once said, and maybe so is a rock band's life. A few minutes later, both were done.
Families are like little villages. You know where everything is, you know how everything works, your identity is fixed, and you can't really leave, or connect with anything or anybody outside, until your physically no longer there.
All that young-girl idealism is someone else's now.
.. . when my family headed out west, like any birth canal Rochester was forgotten.
