"Culture dictated from above is the enemy of folk music. Whether it's stuffy classical music or pre-engineered pop where somebody's paid tons of money to make sure that everyone hears this song a certain number of times a day - that feels like the opposite of folk music."

-- Will Sheff

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“This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute and we become aware of our oneness. This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition, hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.”
“I like animals who trust people.”
“I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.”

Source : Barbara Cartland (1943). “The Isthmus Years”
“To rule without being feltâ€¦is the great mystery of policy.”
“I have an argument that to master any field, it's simple: it's a function of time. How much you devote yourself to the process, how much experience you get, how much you're willing to expand your limits, how willing you are to develop your own style. If you're willing to put 10,000 hours, something amazing is going to happen.”
“When you speak up about any sense of unfairness or injustice, you're told that you're overreacting, you're too angry, too silly-shut up already. It takes a tremendous amount of fortitude to be able to live in this world as a woman, let alone a woman who wants things to change.”
“If you are ready for mystical experiences, you have them.”
“I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.”

Source : "Speaking with...LEN WEIN". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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