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Source : "Beastie Boys: 'We can't make new music' and may never play live again" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2014.

Adam Yauch

#Names Quotes #Events Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“You say that you are too busy to meditate. Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do you have time to breathe but not to meditate? Breathing is something vital to peoples lives. If you see that Dhamma practice is vital to your life, then you will feel that breathing and practising the Dhamma are equally important.”
“The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous. Invariably, it is repressed. To be confronted with this truth all at once and to try to integrate it into our consciousness, however ardently we may wish it, is clearly impossible.”
“An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying the course of events as any other bodily act...You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.”
“Retaining our capacity for reason is common sense, but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is at any given moment.”
“We did make use, from time to time, of candles, neckties, scarves, shoelaces, a little water-color paintbrush, her hairbrush, butter, whipped cream, strawberry jam, Johnsonâ€™s Baby Oil, my Swedish hand vibrator, a fascinating bead necklace she had, miscellaneous common household items, and every molecule of flesh that was exposed to air or could be located with strenuous search.”
“Luxâ€™s frequent forged excuses from phys. Ed. She always used the same method, faking the rigid tâ€™s and bâ€™s of her motherâ€™s signature and then, to distinguish her own handwriting, penning her signature, Lux Lisbon, below, the two beseeching Lâ€™s reaching out for each other over the ditch of the u and barbed-wire x.”
“Up late talking to the fans on a website, That's the only thing that send ya man off to bed right”
“Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names.”

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