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“It's the loneliest feeling in the world-to find yourself standing up when everybody else is sitting down. To have everybody look at you and say, 'What's the matter with him?' I know. I know what it feels like. Walking down an empty street, listening to the sound of your own footsteps. Shutters closed, blinds drawn, doors locked against you. And you aren't sure whether you're walking toward something, or if you're just walking away.”
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“A lot of people go, "I'm influenced by the Beatles and Zeppelin," and they just sound like a karaoke.”
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“There is only one sky and we must take care of it, for if it becomes sick, everything will come to an end.”
Source : "'People in the west live squeezed together, frenzied as wasps in the nest'". Interview with John Vidal, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2014.
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“Now, you may think that this is some sort of generalized hatred that I will carry for the lot of you. Let me assure you that this is not the case. Each of you will fail, but you will fail in your own unique way, and therefore I will dislike each of you on an individual basis.”
Source : John Scalzi (2014). “Old Man's War Boxed Set I”, p.113, Macmillan
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“Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The world would become religious overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead the stars come out every night, and we watch television.”
Source : "You are Brilliant, and the Earth is Hiring". Paul Hawken's commencement speech at University of Portland in Oregon, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2014.
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“Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.”
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“Concert' doesn’t mean standing up like a target in front of thousands of strangers. It means coming together. It means harmony.”
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“Our artists have the power to bring our dreams and our nightmares to life so we will never forget.”