"I know it's very egocentric to believe that someone is put on Earth for a reason. In my case, I like to think I was."

-- Art Buchwald

#Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Ego Quotes

“I respect everything in change and the solemn beauty of life and death... and therefore, while man is amidst the immense beauty of objective bodies, he must possess the capacity of self-perfection and must observe and represent his world with full confidence.”
“When you do movies on low budgets, you donâ€™t want to have a location that requires a very big light right outside the window when youâ€™re 10 stories up. You have to find a location where you have a terrace outside, or you can light from a second floor, or you can light through the windows for daylight.”

Source : "Woody Allen’s Cinematographer Has 6 Life-Saving Tips for Low-Budget DPs". Interview with Jay A. Fernandez, www.indiewire.com. June 14, 2012.
“I was so obsessed with 2Pac. He was one of the first rappers I heard. "Dear Mama" was one of the first tracks I ever memorized.”

Source : Source: upc.fm
“I think that Yes' music is kind of on its own out there, and it goes through different chapters, and that involves different people. I don't think it's a case of 'any year is better than any other.' They can all co-exist quite comfortably.”
“I take the typical words, or I pick a two-word, three-word pattern. One of the things I'm known for is I was one of the first rappers to end their bars rhyming multisyllabically.”

Source : Interview with Jon Caramanica, believermag.com. June 1, 2006.
“There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.”

Source : Edmund Wilson (1951). “Memoirs of Hecate County”
“When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.”

Source : "LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug?". www.wired.com. January 16, 2006.
“Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.”

Source : William Ian Beardmore Beveridge (1950). “The Art of Scientific Investigation”

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