"To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts."

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Source : Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

Jean Rostand

#Thinking Quotes

“Experience is all I have. I equate song-writing with archeology. Every day you dig. You dig into different places within yourself - even finding places that you've rarely been. And buried within the soil is song.”
“Far too few have much too much, and way too many have much too little!”

Source : "Q & A: Trend researcher predicts gloomy 2012". Interview with Jeff Wilkin, dailygazette.com. January 1, 2012.
“You are hearing this song, and you're 16, and it's a song about love, or a girl. And then maybe there's a girl at school that you like. So you're going to be thinking about that girl. That song is sort of about that girl. The songwriter doesn't know that girl, obviously. He wrote it for something else. But there's the specific meaning with the universal again.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things.”
“I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts for your children to pay off. You put pressure on interest rates. You put at risk your economy. That's the case in Britain. We're not a reserve currency, so we need to get on and deal with this issue.”
“You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.”
“I realized that I needed to be more like the shepherd than the hired hand in protecting my team.”
“You know that you don't have all the answers, and the unknown is the best place where you would want to be as an artist, not knowing. That actually leads you to ask questions, and it continuously feeds itself.”

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