"I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'"

-- David Byrne

#Distance Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.”
“Well, I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade.”
“I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score.”

Source : "Q&A: Dan Gable and the state of wrestling". Interview with Matt Winkeljohn, www.myajc.com. September 16, 2014.
“Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power.”

Source : Georges Didi-Huberman (2008). “Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz”, p.23, University of Chicago Press
“And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today life seems short on rewards and that what they write is a product of their own neuroses, in its silly way the magazine is merely stating the status quo and obvious truth. The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.”
“Time is the mother and mugger of us all.”

Source : Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1993). “The New Well-tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.”
“When it all boils down, its about embracing each others stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.”

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