“Before you swim, you gotta be okay to sink.”
Brandon Boyd (1976) American rock singer, writer and visual artist
Lyrics, Light Grenades (2006)
“It is the only case on record of a man swimming toward a sinking ship.”
On former Texas Governor John Connally's switch from Democratic to the Republican party in his bid for the Presidential nomination. Quoted in the Washington Post, 18 January 1988.
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