"Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues."

-- James Iha

#Strong Quotes #Talking Quotes #Issues Quotes

“Not so, however, with books, for books cannot change. A thousand years hence they are what you find them to-day, speaking the same words, holding forth the same cheer, the same promise, the same comfort; always constant, laughing with those who laugh and weeping with those who weep.”

Source : Eugene Field (2012). “The Works of Eugene Field Vol. VII: The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.
“Most questions are clear when someone else has to decide them.”
“It's a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others.”

Source : Ben Aaronovitch (2013). “Broken Homes”, p.8, Hachette UK
“The single biggest lesson I learned was when a hire isn't working out fire them fast. My biggest mistakes, and where I've seen the worst results, were when I gave someone too many chances, or let a situation drift on for too long because I couldn't bring myself to terminate it.”

Source : "How Cindy Gallop Broke Through the "Thick Layer of Men" and Became the Counterpoint to Porn". Interview with Leslie Bradshaw, www.forbes.com. August 10, 2011.
“What we teach our children is that earth is your mother that provides; she's a giver. So, please first ask forgiveness from the mother earth before you step on to it and cause it pain.”
“A person might be an expert in any field of knowledge or a master of many material skills and accomplishments. But without inner cleanliness his brain is a desert waste.”
“I get tired of hearing my ballplayers bellyache all the time. They should sit in the press box sometime and watch themselves play.”
“What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.”

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