"Mess is fairly good. It is like what is found in American hotels except for cake and pie."

-- Knute Nelson

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“I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.”
“Don't get caught up on 'I'm brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.' You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492? All these names we're using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.”

Source : "The Man Who Invented Hip Hop". Interview with Zack O'Malley Greenburg, www.forbes.com. July 9, 2009.
“Back in the time when life was easy, the Internet would have told me what I needed to know. The great thing about the Internet was it didn't care why you were asking.”
“I always was into singer-songwriters like Bright Eyes. When I was in high school I wanted to do a project that was like that. Weatherbox is the name of a song by Mission of Burma so I just had a theoretical acoustic project while I was in high school that didn't actually exist.”
“...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.”
“In the broad light of day mathematicians check their equations and their proofs, leaving no stone unturned in their search for rigour. But, at night, under the full moon, they dream, they float among the stars and wonder at the miracle of the heavens. They are inspired. Without dreams there is no art, no mathematics, no life.”

Source : Michael Atiyah (2014). “Michael Atiyah Collected Works: 2002-2013”, p.267, Oxford University Press, USA
“When I look at where Iâ€™ve been, I see that what I am becoming is a whole lot further down the road from where I was.”
“We know who is out there as far as available quarterbacks, but in reality, no one would be more prepared or capable as a No. 2 at this point than Dan. He got more snaps in the preseason than any of our quarterbacks and continues to get better.”

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