#here

History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what do do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from. ↗

— Jill Lepore

#heredity #history #inheritance #values #change

It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#lawyer #make #me #place #sense

Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead. ↗

— Bjork

#anyone #big #church #compared #depression

I don't make records that way, where I'm trying to please the marketplace or anything. Not because I have anything against that, it's just never been a part of my aesthetic, even when I was with the Pixies. ↗

— Frank Black

#against #anything #because #been #even

It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#america #happening #here #hip #latin

I've been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one. ↗

— Bjork

#easy #here #houses #i #made

Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#always #character #direction #how #keeping

I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#back #everything #gone #happier #houses

If you don't try, if you don't do something for yourself, you won't get anywhere. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#get #something #try #won #you

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#anywhere #else #hates #injustice #land