"All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert: Mohammed, Jesus and myself."

-- Muammar al-Gaddafi

#Jesus Quotes #Desert Quotes #Modern Quotes

“Dreams, they're what sets us apart from being mere a brain and a body.”
“Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country.”
“Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech.”
“I don't want to die, really. I'm interested in what happens next, so I've got to keep on.”

Source : "Remixing Philip Glass". Interview with Zachary Woolfe, www.nytimes.com. October 5, 2012.
“I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.”
“I was born in a suburb outside of Philadelphia called Lower Merion. After taking many leaves of absence, I just received my BA from NYU in Art History. I initially gravitated towards singing. Acting sort of sprang out of that as a means to participate in musicals.”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
“My interactions with musicians have been simply that: interactions with musicians. Issues of gender, or anything else beyond the music-making, have in my experience played no role in whether or not a musician has been able to articulate my intentions as a composer.”
“I came into the Republican party in 1980, when I was a college student at Georgetown.”

Source : "A Nobel Prize Winner on Why We Need Foundational Research". Interview with Lisa Rosenbaum, www.newyorker.com. October 10, 2013.

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