"Health is worth more than learning."

-- Thomas Jefferson

“The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics.”
“In the face of anger, the best response is a burst of tenderness.”
“That's what I paint, I paint people. They're portraits, but you won't always be pleased with the way you look in my paintings. Which is fine, I guess. Unless you're buying it, and it's of your kid!”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The Replacements are the foundation for a lot of what came after in alternative and college rock. Let It Be is their best record and has the most diverse collection of songs. Some pop stuff, some heavy stuff, and some real moments of beauty like 'Sixteen Blue' and 'Androgynous.' It's a record I always go back to.”

Source : "The Hold Steady's 10 Rock Albums Every Man Should Own" by Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. March 25, 2014.
“So that's what's going on right now, and I'm looking to put out an album within the next six months.”
“Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.”
“The music business has changed so much. Collaborations are all over the Internet. The young people are keeping the old school alive. A lot of them run out of ideas so they grab these songs that we've had out for 50 years and bringing them back and making people rich again. That's a nice thing. A lot of artists don't have incomes after a certain time in their life because nobody's is buying the songs. This revival of their music has taken a lot of writers out of the poor house.”
“I do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself - for the photograph - without consideration of how it may be used.”

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