"The boys in the office preferred Daft Punk and the song "Robot Rock" as an anthem, speaking excitedly and without irony about wanting to become robots one day. That made me wonder: Why? What's the pull of being a robot?"

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Source : Katherine Losse (2012). “The Boy Kings: A Journey Into the Heart of the Social Network”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

Katherine Losse

#Song Quotes #Boys Quotes #Rocks Quotes

“My first solo was in church when I was five.”
“There is the sudden. There is the eventual. And in between, there is the living.”
“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.”
“in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled up in child's play, not serious at all - because death is just another way of being, and the dead will not stay put, and sometimes the actions of the dead are more significant, more profound, than their actions in life, and no structure of concrete or stone can contain them.”
“Natural law is only whatever happens in your lifetime within fifty miles of you.”
“When white and black and brown and every other color decide they're going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.”
“The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it”
“But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.”

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