"I find that I never lose Bach. I don't know why I have always loved him so. Except that he is so pure, so relentless and incorruptible, like a principle of geometry."

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

#Music Quotes #Principles Quotes #Relentless Quotes

“As businessmen caught a glimpse of the potentialities inherent in endlessly expanding the wants of people under consumerism, forced draft or otherwise, many began to see blue skies... What was needed was strategies that would make Americans in large numbers into voracious, wasteful, compulsive consumers-and strategies that would provide products assuring such wastefulness. Even where wastefulness was not involved, additional strategies were needed that would induce the public to consume at ever-higher levels.”
“We're in fact on plan. And where we stand today is not, in my view, only acceptable but truly remarkable.”
“I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing.”
“I just want to touch your soul, let me pour into you. Fill you with my joy, and make you feel brand new.”
“Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors.”
“If you want to be in this business [acting], do it for the right reasons. Don't be in it because you want to be a celebrity. Be in it because you really love the work, and the work keeps you up at night, and it keeps you motivated, and it wakes you up early in the morning because you have ideas.”
“A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.”
“Here's why this matters: Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.”

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