"America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual."

-- John Podhoretz

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“Mindfulness is the primary tool in that we get a little space between ourselves and the thoughts and then we actually can be more responsive, as in: Do I want to listen to that? Do I want to ignore it? Do I want to say "no thank you". Do I want to inquire if that's really true or helpful? So we start with mindfulness and we're not engaging, because as soon as we do that, we've given the critic authority. Instead, we want to notice the critic but not give it any attention, not really give it much value.”
“No one wants a masterpiece knocking around when your own book is looking for attention.”

Source : "Better than Amis?". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2003.
“The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.”
“I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember?”
“You may obey a leader who has power and authority, but you will not strive to serve her or the cause of the organization unless you respect and care for her in addition to the ones with whom you serve.”
“If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be messed-up.”
“Ill-fitted T-shirts stretched over a gut are my pet hate. And if the colour's faded - ugh.”
“I don't think that those things [so called common practice] ever truly existed in the way that we like to believe that they do, the way we learn about them in music history class. Those things are defined at least decades after they happen. And even then, it's a fallacy because when you're in the moment, when you're in a thriving scene of musicians, inevitably everyone is going to be doing something completely different from everyone else”

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