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Harrison Birtwistle quote: "The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions..."

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I feel that the Photograph creates my body or mortifies it, according to its caprice (apology of this mortiferous power: certain Communards paid with their lives for their willingness or even their eagerness to pose on the barricades: defeated, they were recognized by Thiers's police and shot, almost every one). Roland Barthes
I believe that the United States has a moral obligation to stand up for those citizens of the world who cannot stand up for themselves, and I am proud to have authored the bill signed into law today that continues to put significant pressure on the brutal Burmese military junta. Joseph Crowley
The Senate is a remarkable institution. It is unique. There is no other body, no other political body, no other democratic legislature in the world quite like the U.S. Senate. Max Baucus
Gray Davis quote: "I have not been briefed."
I have not been briefed. Gray Davis
but you're not a traitor, you've merely been the tool of one. I don't punish tools. They do harm only in the hands of a bad workman. Ursula K. Le Guin
Ayn Rand quote: "A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry."
A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry. Ayn Rand
There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things. Susan George
Naomi Judd quote: "A dead end street is a good place to turn around."
A dead end street is a good place to turn around. Naomi Judd
Robert Caro quote: "Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate..."
Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work. Robert Caro
Stephenie Meyer quote: "Quil. . .imprinted. . .with a two year old?"
Quil. . .imprinted. . .with a two year old? Stephenie Meyer
I don't want to be Marilyn Monroe. In many ways, that's a good comparison. Because Marilyn Monroe was a sexpot, all that stuff that I have no interest in. For me, it's much easier to just try to make people laugh than to try to be the hottest thing in the world. Amanda Bynes
Rosanne Cash quote: "War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we..."
War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves. Rosanne Cash
Twenty-five years ago, I created the Taxpayer Protection Pledge at the federal level. Then I brought it to the state and local level. About 97 percent of the Republicans in the House and 85 percent in the Senate have signed on, and the number of candidates who have taken the pledge is even higher. It's become a party position. Grover Norquist
Herman Hesse quote: "The river is everywhere."
The river is everywhere. Herman Hesse
The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom. James Martineau