"It's a useful habit to never believe more than half of what people tell you, and not to concern yourself with the rest. Rather keep your mind free and your path your own."

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Source : "Independent People" by Halldór Laxness, translated by J. A. Thompson, published by Vintage Books, (Book Two), 1997.

HalldÃ³r Laxness

#Believe Quotes #People Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I always run ahead of the ticket [compared to Democratic presidential candidates]. But this time there were a lot of people that just voted party line, a lot more than usual.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“Communications is at the heart of e-commerce and community.”

Source : "EBay to buy Internet telephone company Skype / $2.6 billion deal will give online auction sellers, buyers another way to communicate" by September 13, 2005, www.sfgate.com. September 13, 2005.
“You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)”
“Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.”
“Bad news drives out good news. The irrational is more controversial than the rational. Concurrence can no longer compete with dissent. One minute of Eldridge Cleaver is worth ten minutes of Roy Wilkins. The labor crises settled at the negotiating table is nothing compared to the confrontation that results in a strike ... normality has become the nemesis of network news.”
“There are lots of guns and action in my drawings, and part of that is just to make them more interesting. Because you can go through a whole film and it's mostly talking heads and little else until the action scenes, and they're usually violence or physical stuff. Same with baseball, or any sport. Except I find pitching and batting are visually very striking.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in Thee.”

Source : "Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me" (hymn) (1776)
“I was going through some emotional turmoil. You can tell by the tunes on the album that I was going through a break-up of my marriage. It was the only way I could express myself.”

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