"A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject."

-- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek

#Academia Quotes #Haunting Quotes #Spectre Quotes

“The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks.”
“I enjoy making music alone, and I like keeping my options open for how I release my own songs. But everybody in Grizzly Bear is full of ideas. So it's kind of boring to come to the band with a complete song and be like: "Here's what I want you to do." With this record, we wanted to make everything feel like everyone - music that we could never do on our own. That's a real gift, and it's one of the best things about being in a band like this.”

Source : "Grizzly Bear". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. October 3, 2012.
“Trout aren't naturally as selective as they've become in crowded tailwaters - they've been trained to be like that by too much fishing pressure. I've seen tailwater fish that are so hysterical they'll refuse naturals. You wonder how they get enough to eat.”
“La chose la plus importante a'Â Â toute la vie est le choix du meÂ tier: le hasard en dispose. The most important thing in life is to choose a profession: chance arranges for that.”
“But our hearts are more elastic than we think, and the work of forgiveness and transformation and growth can do things you can't even imagine from where you're standing now.”
“There are a lot of women out there who are doing crazy things behind closed doors sexual-wise and are afraid to admit it.”
“I've always had just enough success to buy me some more tour dates and another record.”
“When people get tired they will say, "Enough is enough. If you want to kill us all, you can kill us all."”

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