"Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?"

-- Alain de Botton

#Contentment Quotes #World Quotes #Morality Quotes

“Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't deal with concrete issues.”
“Technology has just been the major progression of the last 15 years - instant communication. That stuff has gone so global. That's what's interesting about it. When someone sits down in front of a computer, it's the same everywhere in the world, and it's the same screen looking back at you with the same Google, and there's no individuality to it. So I decided it would be kind of visually uninteresting to have in my films.”
“I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.”
“I only please myself. I figure I'm just one of many people. I'm not that different from anybody else and I don't have great language - I'm very ordinary.”
“It's the company itself, but most of these mutual fund companies, the guy who runs the company is just a fact totem and the guy who runs the money is the power. But we really don't know who they are.”
“The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.”
“Writing is not work. In fact, theres nothing better. Writing is something that if the music business went completely away tomorrow - radio stations quit existing and music quit being popular and it was old hat - I would still write songs.”
“All the things that people like me supposedly don't do, I do.”

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