"When you have nothing left but God, you become aware that God is enough."

-- Maude Royden

“Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.”
“In order for us human beings to commit ourselves personally to the inhumanity of war, we find it necessary first to dehumanize our opponents, which is in itself a violation of the beliefs of all religions. Once we characterize our adversaries as beyond the scope of God's mercy and grace, their lives lose all value.”
“Calamus fortior gladio.”
“In America there's lot of cool cities, but in Canada there's, like, well, Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax may be cool, but they're so expensive. Montreal is the only city that's affordable but also has buses and culture.”
“Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.”
“You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.”
“You know, they say you can reduce genius to someone who spent 10,000 hours trying to get good at something. I'm not claiming either one of those. I haven't done anything for 10,000 hours but sleep. But you do stuff enough, you get better at it. Usually it's a simple thing like that. Essentially, a brainless endeavor.”

Source : "Set List: Randy Newman". Interview with Sam Adams, music.avclub.com. May 31, 2011.
“I think that's kind of indicative of a type of self-confidence that people develop when they recognize their own ability to create.”

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