"We hated pretentiousness; it was a form of self-hatred."

-- Aleksandar Hemon

#Self Quotes #Hatred Quotes #Form Quotes

“People don't get that being a musician is a job, they don't get what the work takes. And that's just because you're living a dream, so everyone who's observing it from the outside can't really empathize with how much work it is because you're fortunate. And it's a kind of competition with yourself to stay away from all of the excess, whether it's booze or drugs or just the late nights with the addiction to watching the sun rise in some weird part of the world. But when you meet the other musicians, there's generally a spiritual exhaustion that you connect with.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood The earth when it is sick, and curest the world O' the pleurisy of people.”
“I grew up poor in crappy situations various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.”
“Life was never meant to be safe. It was meant to be lived right to the end.”
“When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it all together to construct what might feel like a recollection but is actually a construction.”

Source : "Loftus on False and Implanted Memories". Interview with Alison George, www.patheos.com. September 13, 2013.
“Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.”
“Every major technological innovation propels humanity forward to the point of no return.”

Source : Newton Lee (2012). “Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness”, p.205, Springer Science & Business Media
“In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are.”

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