"In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air."

-- Jonathan Raban

#Country Quotes #Air Quotes #Water Quotes

“I have wanted to sing for as long as I can remember. Literally, since maybe the second grade. I don't think there was one turning point where I said, "This is it".”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“There's not a business or a master plan as far as I'm concerned. I take it week by week, and I don't think you ever expect to be able to do the next thing.”
“A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.”
“I think we need to make documentaries about fantasy and storytelling. I think I just started to scratch the surface of a method that allows us to do that. We want to be sucked into the events, suspend our disbelief and imagine that this is a fiction, but actually putting onscreen the gap between who the people are and who they want to be and therefore opening the question about why they want to be this person.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.”

Source : "Caroline Corr of The Corrs". Interviewwith Billy Amendola, www.moderndrummer.com. May, 2005.
“Of those who say nothing, few are silent.”
“Religion is life, philosophy is thought; religion looks up, friendship looks in. We need both thought and life, and we need that the two shall be in harmony.”
“Against my will, I became a witness to the most terrible defeat of reason and to the most savage triumph of brutality ever chroniclednever before did a generation suffer such a moral setback after it had attained such intellectual heights.”

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