"I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life."

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Source : Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, Simon and Schuster

Miles Davis

#Morning Quotes #Future Quotes #Creativity Quotes

“I'm sure the mantelpiece of captaincy will suit Wayne”
“The reader who is illuminated is, in a real sense, the poem.”
“I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.”
“As an actor, you are in a unique position because you're not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of good writing.”
“Representative democracy frequently manifests a disconnect between parliamentarians and the people, so that parliamentarians have agendas that do not correspond with the wishes of the electorate. This has led in many countries to apathy, cynicism and large-scale absenteeism in elections. What is needed is not only parliaments, but parliamentarians who genuinely represent the wishes of the electorate.”
“Men make their own history; but they make it under given conditions, and they become entangled thereby in a fate which is in part the result of other men having made their own history earlier.”

Source : Reinhard Bendix (1990). “Force, Fate, and Freedom: On Historical Sociology”, p.49, Univ of California Press
“The brain, knowing that a person can't live forever in this world, rationalizes a future, or other-dimensional, world in which immortality is possible. In other words, religion is the earliest form of science fiction.”
“I dreamt that I woke up. It's the oldest dream of all, and I've just had it”

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