"As far as the lyrics go, I think I was negotiating a moment in my life where I didn't feel happy. I think I had some existential frustration and I was wrestling with that on a few different levels. I was feeling like I wanted to change a lot of things."

-- Rostam Batmanglij

#Wrestling Quotes #Frustration Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I didn't write songs for a very long time.”
“The greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.”

Source : Source: www.independent.co.uk
“I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.”
“The elks, on the other hand live up in the hills, and in the spring they come down for their annual convention. It is very interesting to watch them come to the water hole. And you should see them run when they find it is only a water hole. What they're looking for is an 'elk-a-hole'.”

Source : "Fictional character: Captain Spaulding". "Animal Crackers", 1930.
“The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.”

Source : "Infinity and the Mind". Book by Rudy Rucker, 1982.
“I am not the first straight dancer or the last.”
“And when we go to church, read our Bibles, have our quiet times, and go to Christian conferences, we too can build some impressive spiritual muscles, but unless we use those spiritual muscles to change our lives, build the church, love our neighbors, and care for the sick and the poor, we...are just posers. Let us not take God's truth for granted.”

Source : Richard Stearns, Reneé Stearns (2013). “He Walks Among Us: Encounters with Christ in a Broken World”, p.34, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for Physics is rightly considered everywhere as the highest reward within the reach of workers in Natural Philosophy.”

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