Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.
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Criss Jami
Would you like to know your future? If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator. So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence -- a surprise.
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Vera Nazarian
You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place.
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Bruce Sterling
Why were you lurking under our window?"" Yes - yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?"" Listening to the news, " said Harry in a resigned voice. His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage." Listening to the news! Again?""Well,...
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J.k. Rowling
You totally need to watch the news."" Can't."" Why?"" It's too depressing."" Right, because hanging with dead people isn't.
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Darynda Jones
More Quotes By Dick Gregory
No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.
They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here.' "I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.
Momma, a welfare cheater. A criminal who couldn't stand to se her kids go hungry, or grow up in slumbs and end up mugging people in dar corners. I guess the system didn't want her to get off relief, the way it kept sending social...
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
