"His hustle was wrong, his mind was his own, but the man lived alone, oh, Superfly."

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Source : Song: Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

#Men Quotes #Mind Quotes #Hustle Quotes

“To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life.”
“You don't want to buy a surprise, because then the surprise is how awful it looks on you.”
“Pretending not to be hurt is a brave thing to do... But you know what? Crying is braver. Why? Coz not everyone can accept the fact that... Not all things are meant for you.”
“Some people have like a certain person, when they're around they get like a gnarly energy. I see it in other people, if a certain person's around they compete really well or something like that. I think it's sort of like that.”
“Today, even amongst Christians, there can be found much of that spirit that wants to give as little as possible to the Lord, and yet to get as much as possible from Him. The prevailing thought today is of being used, as though that were the one thing that mattered. That my little rubber band should be stretched to the very limit seems all important. But this is not the Lord's mind. The Lord wants us to be used, yes; but what He is after is that we pour all we have, ourselves, to Him, and if that be all, that is enough.”
“Fairy's side note: Even people who don't believe in magic really do.”
“I was so unhealthy. I used to go to 'Cold Stone Creamery,' get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.”
“Look at any financial institution, at any bank. They're all photocopies of each other. There's no diversity of institutions and even less diversity of currency. Therefore, just as you say its very logical that an ecosystem like this will collapse, it's very predictable a monetary system like this will collapse, too. And it hasn't finished collapsing, by the way.”

Source : Interview with Tracy Fernandez Rysavy, www.greenamerica.org. 2009.

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