"When I was 18, the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory."

-- Mark E. Smith

“I'm not a role model to my kids. They're a role model to me.”
“The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.”
“Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.”
“It's certainly a lot more difficult to get a project made if you're talking about something progressive. That's just the nature of the industry.”
“Especially from my experience as a quant in a hedge fund - I naively went in there thinking that I would be making the market more efficient and then was like, oh my God, I'm part of this terrible system that is blowing up the world's economy, and I don't want to be a part of that.”
“Sassenach, I've been stabbed, bitten, slapped, and whipped since supper - which I didna get to finish. I dinna like to scare children an I dinna like to flog men, and I've had to do both. I've two hundred English camped three miles away, and no idea what to do about them. I'm tired, I'm hungry, and I'm sore. If you've anything like womanly sympathy about ye, I could use a bit!”
“Sure, it's fun to chat with people with interesting backgrounds who seem to have a passion for your company. But a job interview is not a friendly chat. You need to determine whether candidates, can they really do the job. So ask them to prove it.”
“A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.”

Source : Sarah Orne Jewett (1966). “Deephaven, and other stories”, New College & Univ Pr

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