"I probably couldn't have the same experience listening to that song because I'm self-conscious about some of my singing parts."

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Source : Source: pitchfork.com

Babatunde Adebimpe

#Song Quotes #Self Quotes #Listening Quotes

“The greatest negative in the universe is the Cross, for with it God wiped out everything that was not of Himself: the greatest positive in the universe is the resurrection, for through it God brought into being all.”
“Todayâ€™s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt, the field where human freedom is unfurled. The modern world, the world of world war, the Third World, the underground world of death that acts upon us, do not have the civilized splendor of the Greek city state. The modern political domain is massively, in totalitarian fashion, social, leveling, exhausting. Hence madness is a space of antisocial, apolitical, and paradoxically free individuation”
“An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent; The tent is struck, the vision stays; I only know she came and went.”
“For me, I've learned that the best thing is to focus on the team you play for and yourself and what you need to do.”
“I'm pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept.”

Source : "Jonny Wilkinson: not quite Mr Perfect" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2011.
“I'm not a standup. I didn't start off as a writer, I learned to write through improvisation, and so that's the part of the show that can most surprise me. The written part of the show, I know I can get wrong. You can't really get the interview "wrong."”
“Tell him to live by yes and no - yes to everything good, no to everything bad.”
“To accept duality is to earn identity.”

Source : Joss Whedon's Commencement Addressn at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu. May 26, 2013.

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