"Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward."

-- Fiona Apple

#Song Quotes #Awkward Quotes #Hearing Quotes

“How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now.”
“The foundations of our Empire are now based more firmly than ever! The birth of a Crown Prince shows that the prosperity of the Imperial Household is increasing many times.”

Source : "Sun's Son's Son". "TIME" Magazine, January 1, 1934.
“I had been DJing a dance night in Brooklyn and witnessed the response people had to "The Devil's Dancers" - Oppenheimer's one hit song. All these young people were dancing to this amazing song, completely unaware of whether it was current or not. It was from 1982, but sounded very current. It made sense that a physical record should exist for this song again. It seemed the obvious choice to represent what Minimal Wave was going to be.”
“I begin with an idea, but as I work, the picture takes over. Then there is the struggle between the idea I preconceived... and the picture that fights for its own life.”
“Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error.”
“I don't see what the alternative to risk management is. If it's just getting rid of the models and instead using the smart people who can figure it out? How do you train them? What do you teach them? Do you just put them in a cockpit and let them stumble for 10 years of their life and then after that they're good at it?”
“I think Indians will pick up on a lot of the direct commentary on Delhi, which Americans will obviously miss, while Americans might get more out of watching pop-culture play out in unusual ways in a foreign country. Who knows?”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country.”

Source : Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.7, Albert Einstein Institution

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