"Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself."

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Leo Tolstoy

#World Quotes #Want Quotes #Changing The World Quotes

“You always see people coming back to the sport, and I've always thought, 'Gosh, when you're done playing, wouldn't you just want to stay at home?”
“The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!”
“Usually the song is totally done. I'll do absolutely everything, backing vocals - everything - but in gibberish. A lot of times its based on the mumblings that I sing. Even though I sing in gibberish, it kind of makes sense.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“There are celestial sights more dazzling, spectacles that inspire more awe, but to the thoughtful observer who is privileged to see them well, there is nothing in the sky so profoundly impressive as the canals of Mars. Fine lines and little gossamer filaments only, cobwebbing the face of the Martian disk, but threads to draw one's mind after them across the millions of miles of intervening void.”

Source : Percival Lowell (1908). “Mars as the abode of life”
“In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage earners.”

Source : Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1980). “Bakunin on anarchism”
“I'd always thought that my awkwardness was a thin veil disguising the real me. The me that was funny and could write songs that touched people. The me that would one day find some beautiful, intelligent boy who'd recognize me as his soul mate. The me who was secretly pretty and stylish if only someone would lift the veil and see. But I was beginning to suspect that underneath the awkwardness there was just more awkwardness and not much else. And that would explain why I stood in a room full of people and felt like the loneliest girl in the world.”
“I always choose songs that I have an emotional connection to, and I often feel myself getting very emotional when I sing.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I used to love going fishing. I think it was really about the clothes. Nothing says real man like a vest with 38 pockets and a mesh hat with hooks in it.”

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