"It makes me happy to talk about some fundamentally good things."

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Source : "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.

Joe Goddard

#Good Things Quotes #Make Me Happy Quotes

“The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.”
“In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony.”
“By letting go, you allow everything to find it's rightful place. Once free, everything finds its way home.”
“Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.”
“I really love the traditional aspects of Judaism. My wife is born and raised a Catholic and I enjoy celebrating those rituals as well. I am very spiritual but not in any way religious, no.”
“Lee tells his troops. After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources.”
“If the truth isn't enough, then you must become stronger at presenting it.”
“Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture or even knowing what such a thing ought to look like. But then I always have the hope that, if I persevere, it might one day happen. And this hope is nurtured every time something appears, a scattered, partial,Â initial hint of something which reminds me of what I long for, or which conveys a hint of it â€“ although often enough I have been fooled by a momentary glimpse that then vanishes, leaving behind only the usual thing.”

Source : Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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