"I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all."

-- Aleksandar Hemon

#Winning Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Losing Quotes

“I don't say it in a cocky way, but I take pride in being one of the best at doing what I do.”
“I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.”
“Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.”
“Lazy Line Painter Jane - it was an insane way to make a record! It was just in a church hall, no separate rooms for instruments, and a crappy digital desk, and I think it's fantastic. I think it's one of the best records we ever made. But if you actually said that to a professional recording engineer or producer they'd laugh at you.”

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“The selective instinct of the artist tells him when his language should be homely, and when it should be more elevated; and it is precisely in the imperceptible blending of the plain with the ornate that a great writer is distinguished. He uses the simplest phrases without triviality, and the grandest without a suggestion of grandiloquence.”
“The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.”
“The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.'”
“You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.”

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