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Sam Fogarino
"Attention spans are shrinking on a daily basis, and it's getting harder to make an impression that lasts. So the fact that we were able to make a mark in a way that led to the continued relevance of the record is kind of crazy. I'm in awe of that." --
Source : "Cap the Old Times: The Story of Interpol's Turn on the Bright Lights". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. November 29, 2012.
Sam Fogarino
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“America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the structures of power that exist are working to their own ends to extend their capability at the expense of the freedom of all publics.”
“You have to gather your energy together...conserving it and insulating it from dissipation in every direction other than that of your purpose.”
“We have to bring out the truth about how dark and dangerous and evil the taxi side is.”
“If you keep your cool, you'll get everything.”
“It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.”
“Seldom can two such epoch-making events have occurred in successive years as happened then. In 1453 the Turks stormed Constantinople and finally destroyed the Greek Empire, driving out Greek scholars, who carried the knowledge of Greek language and literature to the western world; and in 1454 the first document known to us appeared from the printing press at Mainz.”
Source : "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. IV, From manuscript To Print, p. 41-42, 1949.
“Under the Dodd-Frank law, the SEC got the lion's share of the rules to write, more than 100 rules, and we have done an extraordinary amount of that. Eighty percent have been either proposed or adopted. So, a lot, a lot accomplished but of course, more to do.”
“I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.”
