"We aren't particularly talented. We try harder!"

-- Joe Strummer

#Trying Quotes #Harder Quotes

“People will let you down in this life, promises will be broken, you should expect less of others and trust more in yourself.”
“Third issue, and again I think it is important to note, anyone can make a mistake and any administration can make a mistake once in a while, but this is just a long train of abuses, an unbroken chain of following special interests rather than the health of the American people.”
“There was no room in God's army for the coward heart, no crown awaiting him who put mother or father, sister or brother, sweetheart or friend above God's will. Let the church cry amen to this!”
“People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.”
“When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.”
“If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse.”
“We have the illusion of freedom only because so few ever try to exercise it. Try it sometime. Try to save your home from the highway crowd, or to work a trade without the approval of the goons, or to open a little business without a permit, or to grow a crop without a quota, or to educate your child the way you want to, or to not have a child. We all have the freedom of a balloon floating in a pin factory.”

Source : "From Far Right to Far Left". The New York Times Magazine, (p. 305), Decemebr 6, 1970.
“Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don't think because it's an hour of your Thursday night rather than an hour and a half of your weekend that you should be gypped at all in quality.”

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