"Defense is what matters. Scoring doesn't interest me."

-- David Robinson

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“Educating all of our children must be one of our most urgent priorities. We all know that education, more than anything else, improves our chances of building better lives.”
“The world is not real for me until it has been pushed through the mesh of language.”
“All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way?”
“Allow the brush to 'wander' above the realm of conventional judgement and practice.”
“I'm constantly fighting with my manager to reduce the amount of time I have to spend on promotional activities, so I can get back in the studio and work on new music.”

Source : "Rivers Cuomo". Interview with The A.V. Club, music.avclub.com. September 14, 2010.
“Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.”
“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.”
“[Nietzsche's] definition of cruelty informs Artaud's own, declaring that all art embodies and intensifies the underlying brutalities of life to recreate the thrill of experience ... Although Artaud did not formally cite Nietzsche, [their writing] contains a familiar persuasive authority, a similar exuberant phraseology, and motifs in extremis ...”

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