"It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity."

-- George D. Prentice

#Mistake Quotes #People Quotes #Sincerity Quotes

“Every time I work with Dr. Luke I learn something new. He's kind of like the Andy Warhol of pop music, where he mass produces his art but it always still has heart and always still has an emotional thread to it. I think he's really a genius and I'm so lucky to have gotten to work with him.”
“Hopeless situations are never hopeless to God.”

Source : Chip Ingram, Chris Tiegreen (2013). “Spiritual Simplicity: Doing Less, Loving More”, p.98, Simon and Schuster
“The kindest compliments I have ever heard are when cops tell me Training Day and Assault on Precinct 13 inspired them to become cops. The funniest compliments I have ever heard are when people tell me that 'I love your band Sugar Ray.”
“To permit surveillance to take root on the Internet would mean subjecting virtually all forms of human interaction, planning, and even thought itself to comprehensive state examination.”
“If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.' At first there can be a friction between our expectations of time and Tarkovsky-time and this friction is increasing in the twenty-first century as we move further and further away from Tarkovsky-time towards moron-time in which nothing can lastâ€”and no one can concentrate on anythingâ€”for longer than about two seconds.”
“I have this side of me that is a very European flamboyant; I won't say queenie, but it's borderline - could be perceived as homosexual.”

Source : "Skewed and Reviewed Talks with "New Moon" Volturi". sknr.net. November 12, 2009.
“Hope, that risky, illustrious thing. It should have gone extinct by now, but we keep it alive.”
“People would be surprised if they knew how shitty my recording situation has been over the years. It took a lot of work to make the music sound ok. Having space where you can't be heard is more important than not being able to hear. If you can't be heard you feel more free when you work.”

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