"Like anyone else, I go up and down. You wake up some days, and you're like, "Life is great." You wake up other days, and you're like, "This is so shitty. I just want to stay in bed." Right now, I feel confident that as long as I can keep the sound moving forward, this is something I'll be doing for at least another five years."

-- Omar Rodriguez-Lopez

#Moving Quotes #Moving Forward Quotes #Long Quotes

“Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control.”
“The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation, the most choice delicacies, prepared in the most scientific manner; whereas the gourmand bears a closer analogy to that class of great eaters ill-naturedly (we dare say) denominated, or classed with, aldermen.”

Source : Abraham Hayward (1858). “Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and Corrections”, p.391
“This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.”

Source : Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.37, Jazzybee Verlag
“One thing Jay z told me that always sticks with me, is that, the album is never how you viewed it to be.”
“The whole point is to hook people and keep them interested.”
“So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff.”
“My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.”
“When I want to tackle a story or a subject, I always ask myself three questions: Is it important to talk about that? Will it interest other people than just me? Can I live with that for three or four years because that's how long it takes to do the project, to write the script, and to direct it, and then to do this.”

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