"The authenticity thing has never been an issue for me."

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Source : "How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world" by Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2012.

Marcus Mumford

#Issues Quotes #Authenticity Quotes

“Things do not always happen the way I would have wanted, and it's best that I get used to that.”
“If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written. For the student there is, in its season, no better place than the saddle, and no better companion than the rifle or the oar.”

Source : Francis Parkman (1960). “Letters of Francis Parkman”
“Naturally I never had the intention to offend or alienate Slavs. â€¦ What makes me different from the â€˜nazisâ€™ are basically three things; unlike them I am not socialistic (not even on a national level), I am not materialistic and I believe in (the ancient Scandinavian!) democracy,”
“Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.”
“Social Security is an extremely complicated program.”
“American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.”
“I was a freelance journalist, and it was a struggle because I had to pitch all the time, research, and stay on top of subjects.”
“There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.”

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