"Just like there's a hole in the ozone layer, there's a hole in the musical ecological layer [wrt lack of successful "conscious" music]... 'Traditional' music was brand new at one time... When you hear R&B today, do you believe it?"

-- Vernon Reid

#Believe Quotes #Successful Quotes #Ozone Quotes

“No relationship would be successful without a little compromise. If you can't learn to do that then I'm sorry to say your relationship will never survive. Love is about giving and taking, it's not just about smiles and kind words. Compromise is key.”
“I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.”

Source : Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Simple Art of Murder”, p.115, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
“Joining a sub-culture, any sub-culture, for whatever reason, is as I see it never a legitimate self-expression. It is always a result of sheep mentality; a wish to belong somewhere.”
“My view is that consciousness, the seat of "personalness," is the ultimate reality, and is also scientifically impenetrable. In other words, there is no scientific test one can postulate that would definitively prove its existence in another entity. We assume that other biological human persons, at least those who are at least acting conscious, are indeed conscious. But this too is an assumption, and this shared human consensus breaks down when we go beyond human experience (e.g., the debate on animal consciousness, and by extension animal rights).”
“Because she is my sister, and therefore one half of me.”

Source : "Fictional character: Mary Boleyn". "The Other Boleyn Girl", www.imdb.com. 2008.
“If everyone's comfortable, you can pretty much make any kind of movie that the director wants.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Thus a new way of finding fluidity will inevitably be imposed on management and labor alike. The profit-sharing, or "progress" sharing union contract is the only possible way of satisfying labor and the consumer without saddling industry with fixed costs that in depression periods can kill off marginal companies like flies.”
“Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.”

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