Janet Tashjian quotes

“There's conflict on every continent, the poverty rate is increasing, the environment's a wreck, and I'm not supposed to be affected?”
-- Janet Tashjian

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“money-making is like a god possessing a priest. He never will leave you, until he has occupied you, wholly changed the order of your being, and seared you through and up and down. Then only would he eventually leave you, but nothing of you except an exhausted wreck, lying prone and wondering who are you.”

Source : Ama Ata Aidoo (1987). “The Dilemma of a Ghost ; Anowa: Two Plays”, Prentice Hall

“If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older”

“We grew up with all the Fat Wreck Records and all the Epitaph bands, that era. We mixed it up together. We were never purists of being just pop or just pop-punk. We always wanted to blend everything that we love.”

Source : "Simple Plan Reveal New Album Plans, Talk 5sos & Warped Tour". Interview with Maria Sherman, www.fuse.tv. July 22, 2015.

“Train wreck, extremely fast train, but usually ends up derailed somehow,”

“In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.”

Source : "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

“It wasn't poverty that drove me on.”

“Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.”

“Riches without faith are the greatest poverty.”

“If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.”

“It's a conflict of parallels.”