"One of the oddities about responses that you get to what you write, if you get a fair number of them, is that people have very different ideas of what you said."

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Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

Louis Menand

#Writing Quotes #Oddities Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“L.A. has been really inspiring towards me for the last one and a half years. There is a lot going on here now. I've been here before, when I was younger, but I've never had this feeling about it. There are a lot of creative things bubbling in the atmosphere. It's so far away from everything else, which makes it a strange, exotic city. When you want to discover yourself, I think this is a good place to be. You don't feel like you are in a real place and I think that can be very good for making music or art.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon.”
“Don't make the mistakes I made of not taking care of myself. Please, keeps your chops cool and don't overblow. If you are going to play hard, be sure to warm up. I'd get carried away trying to stay right with the momentum [of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers]. I used to try and play like Coltrane and solo for 30 or 40 choruses. It all caught up with me.”
“The person who sweeps the floor should choose the broom.”

Source : Howard Behar, Janet Goldstein (2007). “It's Not About the Coffee: Lessons on Putting People First from a Life at Starbucks”, p.63, Penguin
“Words are like knives... If you use it the wrong way it transforms into a bad weapon.”
“There has been times when you play in charity games where you have friends and you always entertain the idea of playing with each other and trying to team up.”

Source : Source: uproxx.com
“Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.”
“The woof and warp of all thought and all research is symbols, and the life of thought and science is the life inherent in symbols; so that it is wrong to say that a good language is important to good thought, merely; for it is the essence of it.”

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