"The first job I got when I was in high school was working for a department store in New York. I worked in the stockroom. That's when I learned that I couldn't work for anyone else, because I was spoken to in a way that I wasn't spoken to at home."

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Frankie Knuckles

#Jobs Quotes #New York Quotes #Home Quotes

“Oh, who would choose to be a traveler? --That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in chaperoning trunks;Who stands in line at gates and wicketsTo spend his means on costly ticketsTo Irkutsk, Liverpool and YapAnd other dots upon the map.”

Source : Arthur Guiterman, “The Traveler”
“Our lives are of great worth if we accept with good grace the situation Providence places us in, and go on living lovingly.”
“Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue.”
“Ask yourself, what makes my book so different? So interesting? Donâ€™t write to be a best seller. Write for and from your heart, not your wallet. Write something you want to be remembered by.”
“I mean, movies are all geared to be basically under 25, and they're all tentpoles, explosions, excitement and all that - they take advantage of the big screen, which is great.”
“Retirement is a waste of time. The economy needs you!”

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“The investigation of making is illuminating towards that moment rather than the other way around, a reversal of the way that I would approach making a painting before. I think that it gets to a richer illumination of the moment, which is what I was trying to do at the beginning but going about it a little backwards.”
“Whenever Iâ€™d try to talk myself out of going for a walk, and there were a few days like that, Iâ€™d take myself through a series of simple tasks so I would get up and go. 1. Get up. 2. Find your house keys. 3. Put on some shoes. 4. Grab your iPod. 5. Walk out the front door.”

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