"I started playing harp about fourteen years ago."

-- Joanna Newsom

#Years Quotes #Harps Quotes #Fourteen Quotes

“I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue has eight views and they must all be equally good.”
“I think America, really, is over.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself as the instrument - the Incorporated National Will. ... When our dictator turns up you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American. And nobody will ever say "Heil" to him, nor will they call him "Führer" or "Duce." But they will greet him with one great big, universal, democratic, sheeplike bleat of "O.K., Chief! Fix it like you wanna, Chief! Oh Kaaaay!"”

Source : "Watchdogs of Democracy? : The Waning Washington Press Corps and How it Has Failed the Public" by Helen Thomas, (p. 172), 2006.
“I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.”
“Follow your own path, no matter what people say.”
“I have been waiting a long time for this. It's been my dream forever. Now that it's a reality, I love it. I haven't been burnt out at all and I have a bunch of guys with me that feel the same way.”
“Buddha nature is not something that we possess, nor is it something we can be. It is the nature of things, just as they are. To realize our buddha nature, to live in accord with this awakening, is the truth that alleviates suffering in the world.”
“I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages.”

Source : Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.316, Macmillan

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