"I'm not trying to achieve perfection. I don't like this forced control people have over work."

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Billy Childish

#People Quotes #Perfection Quotes #Trying Quotes

“There's a generation of people that do fetishize books and do fetishize catalogues and do look at them as something important. The same thing with magazine culture: because magazines don't make the amount of money that they used to, it's become important again to another generation of people to actually read them. And it's very, very pinpointed to the select people that actually fetishize and go in and look at them.”
“The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down.”

Source : "Pendulum: Léon Foucault and the Triumph of Science". Book by Amir D. Aczel, 2000.
“People know me, and want to know me, as a baller more than anything else.”
“Nestor beckoned to me and I dismounted with care.I handed the reins to the boy with thanks. I do not wish to see that hard-charging bag of bones again, unless it is in my soup.”
“The more you frame the marathon as a stressful experience, the more negative messages you'll receive. But it's just as easy to frame it as a positively challenging journey.”

Source : Jeff Galloway (2001). “Marathon: You Can Do It!”, p.80, Shelter Publications, Inc.
“I see certain parallels between the debate over feminism where some women argue that women should not be forced to stay at home and take care of children [and debate about hijab]. And there are other women who are saying you are criticizing my decision as a free liberated women to stay home and take care of my children.”

Source : "The Case Against Wearing Hijab To Support Muslim Women". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. December 22, 2015.
“The hypotheses we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this: our hypotheses ought to foretell phenomena which have not yet been observed.”

Source : William Whewell (1968). “Theory of Scientific Method”, p.151, Hackett Publishing
“In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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