"I know that I am absolutely blessed beyond belief!"

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Source : "Daft Punk Bassist Nathan East: Music is His Mission". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 9, 2014.

Nathan East

#Blessed Quotes #Belief Quotes #Knows Quotes

“As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.”
“And he knew that at that moment, they understood each other perfectly, and when he told her what he was going to do now, she would not say â€˜be carefulâ€™ or â€˜donâ€™t do itâ€™, but she would accept his decision because she would not have expected anything less of him.”
“Itâ€™s all about sticking to your plan and experiencing feelings as they arise. If you are unwilling to feel your feelings, the temptation is to avoid them by jumping off your system”
“I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their inadequacy there was not one I would disown. Each tore its way from my entrails. Each had shortened my life, killed me with its own special little death.”
“The principal thing is the question of how our culture views age: that old is ugly. Take a photographer like Mapplethorpe. Every single photograph of his is about classical notions of beauty, of young beautiful black men, young beautiful women, and he selects subjects who are essentially interesting and good-looking and extremely physical. I can't stand them.”
“A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.”

Source : "Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History". Book by Fawn M. Brodie, ch. 1, 1974.
“Weâ€™re all works in progress, honey. And believe me when I tell you that Iâ€™ve had to work harder than most.”
“When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or not, their main purpose is the elimination or neutralization of the independent individual- the independent voter, consumer, worker, owner, thinker- and that every device they employ aims at turning men into a manipulable animated instrument which is Aristotle's definition of a slave.”

Source : Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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