#son

I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#fear #fed #fed up #i #jewish

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#halls #i #learnt #lecture #lessons

I think a lot of men are afraid of pretty things, and I'm not, I like pretty songs. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#i #i think #like #lot #men

What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#always #basically #bob #bob dylan #did

The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#attracted #both #christian #love #love affair

This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#hasn #poison #stopped #yet

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that "treason" is morally worse than murder or rape. ↗

— William Blum

#citizenry #convinced #many #morally #murder

Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul. ↗

— Stella Blum

#claim #close #everybody #fashion #feelings

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#i #i tried #like #reasonable #tried

For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks. ↗

— Alexis Bledel

#draw #fact #jerks #reason #some