#sm

I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies. ↗

— James Iha

#artist #bands #emerging #i #i love

A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#cannot #commitment #crucial #crucial role #experience

Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#am #basic #belief #brings #democracy

Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#arise #between #born #breathe #cosmos

The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back. ↗

— Kim Jong Il

#colonialism #force #hold #liquidation #times

I exercise three to four times a week, doing the Tracy Anderson Method, which involves toning and strengthening our small muscle groups. ↗

— Natalie Imbruglia

#doing #exercise #four #groups #i

I do smoke in real life. A lot. We're all smoking right now in fact. ↗

— Michael Imperioli

#i #i do #in fact #life #lot

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#did #edited #feel #i #itself

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#beginning #communism #convent #converted #during

There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#comic strips #important #influences #journalism #life