"I don't write songs, songs write me."

-- Sammy Cahn

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“Clutter, either mental or physical, is the sign of a healthy curiosity.”
“Not 'I don't give a f-' to just be reckless and do whatever, but 'I don't give a f- what they say.' â€¦ I know who I am and what I'm doing in my life and what I've accomplished and continue to accomplish as a performer, as a writer, as an artist, as a person, as a human being. I'm happy with the man I'm becoming.”
“Photons come out of nowhere, they cannot be stored, they can barely be pinned down in time, and they have no home in space whatsoever. That is, light occupies no volume and has no mass. The similarity between a thought and a photon is very deep. Both are born in a region beyond space and time where nature controls all processes in that void which is full of creative intelligence.”
“The greatest villain of all time is The Joker - he always has been, and I don't know anyone who's not going to have Heath Ledger's performance burnt into their brains for the rest of their lives.”
“I have learned that those who engage in family history research and then perform the temple ordinance work for those whose names they have found will know the additional joy of receiving both halves of the blessing.”
“It might be hard to believe, but the air in prison is different. There's like one thousand people sucking on the one little piece of fresh air until it turns stale.”
“The parry is wrong." - Drizzt Do'Urden”
“Poverty is just a state of mind,”

Source : "HUD secretary Ben Carson: Poverty is largely 'a state of mind'" by Saba Hamedy, www.cnn.com. May 25, 2017.

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