"I started understanding William Blake and George Orwell more and more. It's amazing how we go to school when we're so young, read all of these books, just trying to memorize them. When you start to live, you don't have to memorize anything."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Benjamin Clementine

#Book Quotes #School Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“Users are innocent for they can not really make sure if their information is safe or not.”
“The world is my country. Science my religion.”
“I was interested first of all in trying to capture this myth that was always changing and to create some sort of a master story, some version of the myth that resonated with me, since I could have taken more or less any detail that I wanted or the opposite and try to put that down on the page in a way that I could express from that outset for myself and for our readers what it was that was so magical about [Buckminster] Fuller's way of putting together the world.”
“It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.”
“Fatherhood will put a man through a lot, but it's a tremendous job, the best in the world - even better than playing basketball.”
“I like the big ups. I'm into the big ups.”
“In a nutshell, the fountain of happiness can be found in how you behave, what you think, and what goals you set every day of your life.”

Source : Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.65, Penguin
“If you think education is expensive, you should try ignorance”

Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 3, 2009.

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