"For every good song, I write 20 bad ones I have to chuck away."

-- Ian Dury

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Chuck Quotes

“Happy the Man, who void of Cares and Strife, In Silken, or in Leathern Purse retains A Splendid Shilling: He nor hears with Pain New Oysters cry'd, nor sighs for chearful Ale”
“The basketball skills I have, I've got because I work hard. When you work hard, I think you don't have to be afraid of anything.”
“There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.”

Source : Hiroshima ch. 1 (1946)
“If something is as smart as you, do you treat it differently if it isn't a human?”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.”
“I would never assume to tell another actor how to do his job!”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“People today dont become economists to make the world a better place.”
“The moot court process in our office when we get ready, we - everybody, including the SG, does two moot courts for each argument. And they are phenomenal, and they predict 90 percent of the questions that I get asked, at least 90 percent.”

Source : "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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