"I've realized, you know, having turned 40, that rest is just as important as work. In fact, it's equally as important."

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Source : "Singer-songwriter Glen Hansard". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. June 18, 2012.

Glen Hansard

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“During the course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare. These abuses of an institution so important to freedom and science are deeply to be regretted, inasmuch as they tend to lessen its usefulness and to sap its safety.”
“Once a person has a child, the first question everyone asks is: "Are you going to have more children?" But it basically means: "Are you going to have more sex with your wife in the hopes of having children?”
“I'm not interested in anybody's guilt. Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford. I know you didn't do it, and I didn't do it either, but I am responsible for it because I am a man and a citizen of this country and you are responsible for it, too, for the very same reason... Anyone who is trying to be conscious must begin to dismiss the vocabulary which we've used so long to cover it up, to lie about the way things are.”
“If you can give people happiness, you're in their hearts. Now you can just start having conversations with people that you would not have had under other circumstances.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“He should have known better because, early in his learnings under his brother Mahmoud, he had discovered that long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings, but short words were slippery, unpredictable changing their meanings without any pattern. Or so he seemed to grok. Short human words were never like a short Martian word - such as grok which forever meant exactly the same thing. Short human words were like trying to lift water with a knife. And this had been a very short word.”
“There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.”
“Beginning with the stimulus, Obama has repeatedly inserted the government into the free market for political reasons - and with disastrous results.”
“Suddenly I realize that everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will ever know.”

Source : Polly Horvath (2008). “My One Hundred Adventures”, p.23, Schwartz & Wade

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