quotes about Balanced Life

“Each State has its own health insurance mandates, and some of them are good, but there are about 1,800 of them all across the Nation, including provisions for acupuncturists, massage therapists, and hair replacements.”

“Nowadays New-York is not the exciting place it used to be. It still has great energy; I still put my finger in the socket. But it doesn't feel alive, cracking with that synergy between the art world and music world and fashion world that was happening in the 80s. A lot of people died.”

“All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try.”

“I wanted to represent the world as a temporary art installation continuously changing. I wanted to consider it unreal and unfinished, judge and transform it, a possibility that only art gives us.”

“I'm glad Hurricane Katrina happened. It taught us an important lesson: black people can't swim.”

Source : "New Orleans Web Denizens Steamed Over Mencia's Orpheus Invite" by Lauren List, www.mardigras.com. February 05, 2009.

“Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.”

“I used to blame my problems on other people. But my moment of clarity, if you want to call it that, came when I was looking in the mirror one day and just burst into tears. It wasn't just that I looked bad, it was that I knew my problem was me.”

“Be worried when the haters stop hating and the critics stop criticizing.”

“Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!”

“Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.”