"Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable."

-- Tony Visconti

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“Part of what we want to do with the Heroic Imagination Project is to get kids to think about what it means to be a hero. The most basic concept of a hero is socially constructed: It differs from culture to culture and changes over time. Think of Christopher Columbus. Until recently, he was a hero. Now he's a genocidal murderer! If he were alive today, he'd say, "What happened? I used to be a hero, and now people are throwing tomatoes at me!”
“The universal view melts things into a blur.”
“My heart seem[s] colder than March but on the flipside of things, it's still warmer than June.”

Source : Song: The Life, 2002
“Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.”
“The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.”
“Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual.”

Source : "Seven questions for Walter Russell Mead". The Economist Interview, www.economist.com. January 16, 2010.
“I couldnt be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because Im pretty optimistic.”
“I don't like to think on obstacles. I guess that if you focus your mind on obstacles, they will grow bigger.”

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