"Around the middle of last year I started listening to a lot of rap, like Nicki Minaj and Drake. They all sing about such opulence, stuff that just didn't relate to me-or anyone that I knew. I began thinking, 'How are we listening to this? It's completely irrelevant'."

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Source : "Discovery: Lorde". Interview with Olivia Fleming, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 14, 2013.

Lorde

#Rap Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes

“At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day. Then I knew what the problem was. I needed experience. How could I write about life when I'd never had a love affair or a baby or even seen anybody die? A girl I knew had just won a prize for a short story about her adventures among the pygmies in Africa. How could I compete with that sort of thing?”
“The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.”
“Kelly Clarkson is the most adorable person on the planet. She is just so nice.”
“The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature as well as that of the universe.”

Source : "Lives of Eminent Philosophers: 'Zeno" by Diogenes Laërtius, 7.87,
“My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind”
“Therefore I begin to think, my Lord, you purposely allow us to be brought into contact with the bad and evil things that You want changed. Perhaps that is the very reason why we are here in this world, where sin and sorrow and suffering and evil abound, so that we may let You teach us so to react to them, that out of them we can create lovely qualities to live forever. That is really the only satisfactory way of dealing with evil. Not simply binding it so that it cannot work harm, but whenever possible overcoming it with good.”
“In my country (Belgium), if you sit beside the phone long enough, it will ring and you will be invited to play rugby for Belgium!”
“People will admit to arson and mayhem sooner than no sense of humor.”

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