"I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences."

-- Antony Beevor

#Archives Quotes #Half Quotes #Dozen Quotes

“I grew up with my older brother listening to hip hop, and Jay-Z was the main person I listened to. When it comes to his word play, he's just out of this world. That's my biggest inspiration when it comes to writing lyrics.”
“We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.”
“There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.”
“Commit yourself to taking enough risks that you will fail some of the time. If you're not failing, we're not doing something sufficiently difficult or creative.”
“But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own.”

Source : "Vincent Kartheiser: 'I definitely do psychopathic. I don't try to, but it just sneaks out'" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2010.
“Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.”
“Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.”
“I dont watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that Im choosing to watch.”

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