"In both word and deed, one of the greatest idlers of all time was John Lennon. In his songs we see repeated defences of simply lying around doing nothing."

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Source : "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2006.

Tom Hodgkinson

#Song Quotes #Lying Quotes #Deeds Quotes

“Honestly, you have to take care of yourself. That's probably something I have learned on the road.”

Source : "13 Questions With Talib Kweli". Interview with Emma McKay, www.askmen.com.
“I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.”
“We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters”
“If there was a little room somewhere in the British Museum that contained only about twenty exhibits and good lighting, easy chairs, and a notice imploring you to smoke, I believe I should become a museum man.”
“I know when something is done and when it isn't. There's been times working on movies when they [moviemakers] lock in a release date and so you're stuck to that schedule. But sometimes you're still editing and you feel like you're not really done, but they're sort of releasing the movie anyway - that's kind of depressing.”
“And they both began to laugh over nothing as children will when they are happy together. And they laughed so that in the end they were making as much noise as if they had been two ordinary healthy natural ten-year-old creaturesâ€”instead of a hard, little, unloving girl and a sickly boy who believed that he was going to die.”
“Seasteads cost money, and if you want to succeed as a Seastead you have to find ways to attract people to move there. If I was a billionaire I wouldn't want to move to a seastead, but if I was a member of the bottom billion, most of whom want to leave their dysfunctional governments, I might want to move to a seastead.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“The Poplar grows up straight and tall, The Pear-tree spreads along the wall”

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