"If someone comes up to me at a show and talks to me, if they're not freaking out about meeting me, which I'm just not very good at dealing with, of course I'll talk to them. I'm mean, they're a person. I'm not a monster. It may sound like bullshit humility, but I'm just a dude making music. I'd be doing this if no one was listening."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Jeff Rosenstock

#Mean Quotes #Humility Quotes #Bullshit Quotes

“I've been funny my whole life. This is a gift God gave me.”
“Money. You don't know where it's been, but you put it where your mouth is. And it talks!”

Source : Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.91, Macmillan
“I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not.”

Source : Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.261, Univ of California Press
“He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal,- The past unsighed for, and the future sure.”
“Oh no, honey, I canâ€™t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.”
“Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.”
“Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect the public weal.”
“Essentially, we humans live well enough and long enough, and are smart enough, to generate all sorts of stressful events purely in our heads.”

Source : Robert M. Sapolsky (2004). “Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping - Now Revised and Updated”, p.4, Macmillan

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