"I mean, being provincial is a privilege in a way. Also people in New York think everybody interacts because they all take the subway. "Oh, I see all these different people! All these different walks of life on the subway." Well, they're not coming to your dinner party. Certainly, in small-town Nebraska, everyone indeed did mix together."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Meghan Daum

#Party Quotes #Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Don't worry about achieving. Don't worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can. When you realize you've wandered off again, simply very lightly acknowledge that. This light touch is the golden key to reuniting with our openness.”
“Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.”
“It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward.”
“What? 'Borderline patients play games'? That what you said? Ernest, you'll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That's exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis. There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can't treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)”
“You can make records from now 'til doomsday, and there are something like 50,000 records released every year, but the public gets to hear very few of these. They just won't know. They might be great records, but how in the world is the public supposed to find out about them?”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure.”
“Revenge is good. I think revenge is healthy too, and if you can use music in that way, a sort of therapeutic way for yourself, it can't do any harm. So if King (For A Day...Fool For A Lifetime) is angry in any way, it's angry in a random, chaotic, healthy way. Like the guy who goes into a building, shoots a bunch of holes in the wall and then leaves. He didn't kill anybody.”

Source : "Faith No More". CMJ New Music Monthly, April 1995.
“People do things for love and belief and passion, not just because they're paid to do it.”

Source : Interview with Nitsuh Abebe, pitchfork.com. November 10, 2008.

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