"Lyrics are my racket; music is play - the fluff stuff."

-- Cass McCombs

#Play Quotes #Stuff Quotes #Racket Quotes

“Scoring is a function of great execution, and winning is the result, but thinking about winning can pull your focus off of proper execution in a competition. Thinking about process is the answer.”
“Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the phenomenon. Decaying cities, declining economies, and mounting social troubles travel together. The combination is not coincidental.”

Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs”, p.243, Random House
“Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.”
“It is perfectly clear that people, given no alternative, will choose tyranny over anarchy, because anarchy is the worst tyranny of all... The special nature of liberties is that they can be defended only as long as we still have them. So the very first signs of their erosion must be resisted, whether the issue be domestic surveillance by the Army, so-called preventive detention, or the freedom of corporate television, or that of a campus newspaper.”
“So many people want me to hate him and destroy him, but I don't want to. I want him to be happy. He's not a bad person.”
“Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions â€“ empathy, sweetness, volubility, warmth â€“ are seen as impediments to a womanâ€™s professional trajectory in many sectors.”
“Collecting has always been in my blood.”
“Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.”

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