"I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records."

-- Elliott Smith

#Thinking Quotes #Records Quotes

“To know oneâ€™s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at oneâ€™s own face with oneâ€™s own eyes, for example. One has no choice but to look at oneâ€™s reflection in the mirror. Through experience, we come to believe that the image is correct, but that is all.”
“I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.”

Source : "Colum McCann Links Communities With Storytelling". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. June 26, 2012.
“Each time the dharma moved into a different civilization or historical period, it faced a twofold challenge: to maintain its integrity as an internally coherent tradition, and to express its vision in a way that responded to the needs of the new situation.”
“Yesterday you asked me what the purpose of life is. I've thought about that ever since. I think it's to do good no matter what life throws at you, to not let the pain turn you bitter. It's something we have to learn, something we have to make ourselves become...Little kids don't have to learn it. They already know.”
“At about the age of seven â€¦ I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they played in the snow, they ate apples, and they talked a lot about the weather: how lovely it was that the sun had come out. This despite the fact that I lived in Nigeria; we didnâ€™t have snow, we ate mangoes, and we never talked about the weather, because there was no need to.”
“I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour, but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country.”
“I know that many in Europe are unhappy with their governments' policies toward the Palestinians.”
“I'm responsible. I even did a commercial for MTV saying how I was going to register to vote. And I still haven't.”

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