"That's why we feel so disoriented, irritated even, when these touchstones from our past are altered. We don't like it when our hometown changes, even in small ways. It's unsettling. The playground! It used to be right here, I swear. Mess with our hometown, and you're messing with our past, with who we are. Nobody likes that."

-- Eric Weiner

#Past Quotes #Who We Are Quotes #Way Quotes

“I have to decide whether I'm just laying down a groove, kind of a bed and canvas for the lyrics and music to live on, or trying to illustrate something in the lyrics.”

Source : Interview with Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. June 5, 2006.
“I like to admire. I'm a fan of beauty.”
“A lot of the reasons why something is a favorite thing are all things you don't necessarily see, the place, the people, the time, where you are, what it meant to you at the time.”
“How many of the unicorn companies are really prosaic businesses - like limousine services or renting rooms in your house? The original VC firms from the '70's made their money and established the reputation of their respective brands by leveraging big cleverness with small capital, not small cleverness with big capital, and that's what's going on with these unicorns. That has never worked and it won't work this time. It doesn't produce venture quality returns, and it never will.”

Source : Source: www.sfgate.com
“I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.”
“Growing up I wanted to be a mixture of Audrey Hepburn and Lucille Ball. Apparently I told my mum when I was eight that I wanted to be an actor.”
“Don't fear moving slowly forward...fear standing still.”
“the longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt ...”

Source : Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1887). “Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle”

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