"The expectation is this low, gravelly voice for John, but I went through his early recordings and there were songs in there where the voice was so different, I wasn't even sure if it was him singing, ... So it was interesting to me that we would see him develop the Man in Black sound. I thought it was really important that his voice change as his persona slowly solidified. The music was really the doorway into the character."

-- Joaquin Phoenix

#Song Quotes #Character Quotes #Men Quotes

“...appetite turns common food into the fare of kings.”
“When we talk about the impact inside mathematics, and applications in the sciences, [Mandelbrot] is one of the most important figures of the last 50 years.”
“I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching,”
“I pray for my nation, South Africa. As Jesus stood in the boat and commanded the storms to be calm, I stand in the midst of the storm in my nation, South Africa and I command the storm, wind and waves to be calm, in the name of Jesus! I speak calmness to my nation, South Africa, in the name of Jesus!”
“The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.”
“The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces.”

Source : Howard Staunton (1847). “The chess-player's handbook”, p.24
“Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.”
“I love religion and have contemplated going back to school to get a world religion degree.”

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