"I have a big barn that I converted to my music studio, so I go there early in the morning and the first thing I do is rowing. And that's when I listen to a lot of music."

-- Tod Machover

#Morning Quotes #Barns Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I remind myself that traveling through life as an artist requires one to distill things slowly. To be inquisitive, inventive, and patient - a lot of things get discarded along the way. It's a little like boiling sea water to get at the salt.”
“I find it hard to relax. I live in New York.”
“All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.”
“how seasonably leaf and blossom uncurl and living things arrange their death, while someone from afar off blows birthday candles for the world.”

Source : Irving Layton (1977). “The Selected Poems of Irving Layton”, p.12, New Directions Publishing
“The easiest way to make money is -create something of such value that everybody wants and go out and give and create value, the money comes automatically.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the domestic arts is frequently enslaved by them.”
“A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.”

Source : 1950 In Life,16 Oct.
“Religious people claim that it's just the fundamentalists of each religion that cause problems. But there's got to be something wrong with the religion itself if those who strictly adhere to its most fundamental principles are violent bigots and sexists.”

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