"music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven."

-- Rebecca West

#Music Quotes #Effort Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“I think I was, like, maybe frustrated for many years because I didn't try to direct. And since I made my movie I'm just like, 'It's great.”
“Iâ€™m not complaining about Romance Being Dead - Iâ€™ve just described a happy marriage as based on talking about plants and a canceled Ray Romano show and drinking milkshakes: not exactly rose petals and gazing into each otherâ€™s eyes at the top of the Empire State Building or whatever. Iâ€™m pretty sure my parents have gazed into each otherâ€™s eyes maybe once, and that was so my mom could put eyedrops in my dadâ€™s eyes.”
“I was a huge Sub-Zero guy, but the fact that you can download Freddy Krueger is the coolest thing I've heard of in a very long time.”
“Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as 'Call Me God') to KCMG ('Kindly Call Me God') to .. the GCMG ('God Calls Me God').”

Source : 'Anatomy of Britain' (1962) ch. 18
“Reduce risk, lower your required capital, and focus on what youâ€™re really good atâ€”and hire others for what you are not.) This is something you should think about in any business: donâ€™t try to do everything. You arenâ€™t the best at everything. Find out where you have an advantage and stick to that.”

Source : Marc Ecko (2015). “Unlabel: Selling You Without Selling Out”, p.33, Simon and Schuster
“There are not a ton of people buying cars - cars are expensive. So people usually go for the cheapest car they can get. And if the price of gasoline falls again, it makes the savings that you get with an electric car harder to realize.”

Source : "The Electric Car Strikes Back?". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. May 2, 2011.
“I think I'm actually in denial that I'm famous, it only sinks in when people crowd in the streets. My friends treat me like a regular person, which is what I wanted.”
“As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.”

Source : "Commentary: Our tragedy and God's love for orphans" by Steven Curtis Chapman, www.cnn.com.

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