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A high EQ mind maintains its composure whatever the situation, whether it is being glorified or vilified.
— Pearl Zhu
Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.
— Greil Marcus
Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured.
— Terry Goodkind
Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.
— Greil Marcus
Sadness is twilight's kiss on earth.
— Wole Soyinka
Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.
— Franz Kafka
Someone was going to want to say, I'm fucked.
— Greil Marcus
And because soul music is the limitless affirmation of the individual despite his or her past sins and all obstacles in his or her way,
— Greil Marcus
I was raised doing martial arts.
— Victor Webster
The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.
— Brent Sexton
I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding the world.
— Greil Marcus
It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.
— Greil Marcus
Your ancestors are a ladder;
upon them climb. — Matshona Dhliwayo
upon them climb. — Matshona Dhliwayo
No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.
— Greil Marcus
I do worry because it takes all types to make our culture, to make our art. We need it to be available to all.
— Neve McIntosh
Every time Elvis sings, he makes a bargain with the devil -- just like Captain Ahab in MOBY DICK!
— Greil Marcus
I wanna meet the person who wrote the Burlington Coat Factory thing, but that's cool. I would love to understand it more, but everything is good.
— Wale
Art doesn't explain itself.
— Greil Marcus
Blues grew out of the need to live in the brutal world that stood ready in ambush the moment one walked out of the church.
— Greil Marcus
We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.
— Greil Marcus
Berkeley was a lookout and a hideout.
— Greil Marcus
Worship is at once the overall character of the renovated thought life and the only safe place for a human being to stand.
— Dallas Willard
Fame is a jealous mistress
And will brook no rival. — Thiruvalluvar
And will brook no rival. — Thiruvalluvar