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“Everyone in our generation lives in a world where you're surrounded by all sorts of music all the time. People's tastes are made of combinations of genres.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“My mother would write letters when I was away at camp and say, 'There's an Ann-shaped space around the house. Nobody fills an Ann-shaped space except an Ann.' I'm convinced we all have a God-shaped space in us, and until we fill that space with God, we'll never know what it is to be whole,”
Source : People Magazine, 1992.
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“The soul's a sort of sentimental wife, That prays and whimpers of the higher life.”
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“I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.”
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“We tend to suffer from the illusion that we are capable of dying for a belief or theory. What Hagakure is insisting is that even in merciless death, a futile death that knows neither flower nor fruit has dignity as the death of a human being. If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death? No death may be called futile.”
Source : Yukio Mishima (1977). “The Way of the Samurai: Yukio Mishima on Hagakure in Modern Life”, Basic Books (AZ)
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“Men often compete with one another until the day they die. Comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.”
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“Convenient though it would be if it were true, Mozilla [Netscape 1.0] is not big because it's full of useless crap. Mozilla is big because your needs are big. Your needs are big because the Internet is big. There are lots of small, lean web browsers out there that, incidentally, do almost nothing useful. But being a shining jewel of perfection was not a goal when we wrote Mozilla.”
Source : Extract from interview with themes.org, www.jwz.org. 1998.
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“Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I'd made before it.”