"I've never presented myself as anything less than a flawed person."

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Mark Lanegan

#Flawed Quotes #Persons Quotes

“There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.”
“I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.”
“If a European guy came to Africa and said hey guys, you don't have good - people could tell him to go to hell. You are an imperialist. You are a colonialist. Who are the hell are you to come and tell us what to do? I'm an African. Whatever I say nobody in Africa tell me well, it's not of your business. It is my business.”

Source : "Mo Ibrahim: The 'Bill Gates Of Africa'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 25, 2013.
“He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist.”
“God preserve us! If men knew what is done in secret, no one would be free from the interference of others.”
“Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is driven by an inquisitive urge. By noticing relationships in the results of his observations, he attempts to order and to explain the infinite variety of phenomena that at first sight may appear to be chaotic. In the history of civilization this type of progressive scientist has been characterized by Prometheus stealing the heavenly fire, by Adam eating from the tree of knowledge, by the Faustian ache for wisdom.”

Source : "The Scientific Character of Geology". The Journal of Geology, Vol. 69, No. 4, p. 454, July 1961.
“You like all the junk pop cultural stuff. That's how you know who you are and what to wear and what you're like. But there's another MTV viewer who says you don't need to tell me what's cool. Just put it in front of me.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Maturity and experience shouldn't stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters.”

Source : Lewis Buzbee (2010). “The Haunting of Charles Dickens”, p.302, Macmillan

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