"Activists measure progress against the standard of perfection, or at least the most perfect possible choice. Historians gauge progress against what came before it."

-- Jonathan Chait

#Perfect Quotes #Choices Quotes #Progress Quotes

“I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.”

Source : "Cover Story: Sam Smith". Interview with Jessica Robertson, www.thefader.com. May 28, 2014.
“I'll be a poet, and you'll be poetry.”
“Language is the most beautiful and destructive thing because it allows you to express yourself, but it totally confuses everything.”
“I always say if you can't buy it three times over, you can't afford it. Don't drive a Bentley on a Benz income.”

Source : Slim Thug (2012). “How to Survive in a Recession”, p.18, Di Angelo Publications
“Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence,”
“Honesty is not necessarily interesting. I don't want to hear about your dreams or your acid trips, probably unless you make them really interesting.”
“I sometimes try to write something that is actually really simple and I can't do it. So, then, it's not simple anymore. It's really hard and it gets all messed up. I sometimes sit down and try to write a song with just three chords and it doesn't work.”
“I still think about that one Jamiroquai video a lot.”

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