"The main reason we didn't break up is because we weren't really a college band. We were just, two dudes who were messing around with music. We never played off-campus except for once or twice. We never had any ambitions to make it as a band after college, or anything like that. So that probably worked in our favor. We never took anything seriously, we still don't!"

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Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com

Andrew VanWyngarden

#Ambition Quotes #College Quotes #Reason Quotes

“miracles had to be paid for; only calamity was free.”
“I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.”
“To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.”
“Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City.”
“I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture. In the desert, change is nurtured even in stone by wind, by water, through time.”
“I... allowed my memory to journey back to the days when I was a boy of ten, full of health and optimism, when my wonder at the great game of living had yet to give way to disillusionment at its shabbiness.”

Source : Ruskin Bond (1988). “The Night Train at Deoli and Other Stories”, p.80, Penguin Books India
“If I have to choose between you and me - I like me better.”
“My parents never looked at my acting as a career. They saw it as a way to help provide for the household.”

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