"For me surfing is just something that I love to do. I grew up surfing, is sort of like a family requirement. I can't imagine my life without it. But I am not defined by it, nor is my music. They are very separate."

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Source : Source: www.roomthirteen.com

Tristan Prettyman

#Surfing Quotes #Requirements Quotes #Imagine Quotes

“I still love how Phil Spector turned teenage experiences into wonderful symphonies, but I find it a little more difficult to put myself in that place.”

Source : "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.
“Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.”
“In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime”
“God laughs on two occasions. He laughs when the physician says to the patient's mother, 'Don't be afraid, mother; I shall certainly cure your boy.' God laughs, saying to Himself, 'I am going to take his life, and this man says he will save it!' The physician thinks he is the master, forgetting that God is the Master. God laughs again when two brothers divide their land with a string, saying to each other, 'This side is mine and that side is yours.' He laughs and says to Himself, 'The whole universe belongs to Me, but they say they own this portion or that portion.'”

Source : "The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna" as translated by Swami Nikhilananda, Vol. 1, 1942.
“Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them.”
“It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn't match what you dreamed it would be.”
“Men are capable of talking hours on end over only one subject; women do it and don't even require a subject.”
“Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They are the long haul. They are marriage. Stories, on the other hand, you can lose yourself in for a few weeks and then wrap up, or grow tired of and abandon and (maybe) return to later. They can cuddle you sweetly, or make you get on your knees and beg.”

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