"I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die.. and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres."

-- Felix Dennis

#Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes #Land Quotes

“Louis Armstrong could only happen once - for ever and ever. I, for one, appreciate the ride.”
“One of the real dangers of loyalty is that it may become associated with certain types of group-think, chauvinism, jingoism, and thus become socially destructive in ways that many other virtues are not likely to be when they are corrupted. Nationalism and patriotism are especially prone to misguided excess.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“No success or achievement in material terms is worthwhile unless it serves the needs or interests of the country and its people and is achieved by fair and honest means.”
“We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.”
“Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.”

Source : "Telling Stories About the Future of Journalism" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. January 27, 2014.
“This act of piss, which can be considered sexual by some, a pleasurable experience, is at the same time total disrespect. I had once asked a friend to do this picture and he totally refused. So I carried the idea around with me for years. When I was invited to do a Honcho shoot, I approached Phillip, who was the barman at The London Apprentice, and fortunately he knew who I was. He had a copy of my first book, and that broke the ice. At the end of the shoot with him, I realized I could ask him to do this picture. I had waited four years to do it.”
“It's easy to get anonymous people to hate you. Have an opinion. Be creative. Be yourself.”
“Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.”

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