"Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand."

-- Alain de Botton

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“If Broadway musicals were as popular as they were in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, then people like Sufjan Stevens and Iron & Wine would be writing for Broadway, which would be amazing. As it stands, it's the worst stuff that's mired in pop music.”

Source : "The Decemberists' Colin Meloy". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. February 14, 2011.
“**New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.** That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any dirigiste planning process; it comes form some cocktail of happenstance, desire, curiosity, ambition and need. But at the end of the day, there has to be a degree of foresight -- a sense of where new riches lie. So radical innovation is always one part fortuity and one part clearheaded vision. [first-line bold by author] [2002] p.23”
“For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.”
“I sat back, allowing Wes's words to sink in. Then I responded, "I guess it's hard sometimes to distinguish between second chances and last chances.”

Source : Wes Moore (2010). “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates”, p.67, Spiegel & Grau
“You can't regret a whole period in your life. . . . It's part of who you are, one of your stories.”
“Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers-- If these magnific titles yet remain Not merely titular.”
“We talk about democracy as if it's a safeguard for individual rights... Instead, it's become our way of intruding on rights, allegedly in the name of that most collectivist of concepts: The Common Good.”
“I knew that I always wanted to be a filmmaker, an actor, a writer and a director, that was always my plan.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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