"Nobody is going to put a limit on what I'm doing."

-- Michael Phelps

“At times ... one is downright thankful for the self-absorption of other people.”
“Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands.”

Source : "Stupidity is not a resignable offense" by Mark Shields, www.cnn.com. March 17, 2003.
“In the past, I've written my songs and then asked friends if they could record the vocals. I didn't want to use my own voice, because other people have much better voices. I was hearing the music with a voice that I don't have. It was a case of pulling whatever resources I had to get the sound I wanted, but that doesn't take anything away from the authorship. They are songs written by me that sound the way I want them to sound. Whether it's my voice or someone else's doesn't make a difference to the music.”
“Spending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview With Laura Potter, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2009.
“Tagalog sounds like boiling water.”
“The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.”
“I donâ€™t understand why things always go from perfect to weird with us. Itâ€™s like weâ€™re incapable of normal human interaction.”
“She pulls the eyes out with a face like a magnet.”

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