"We are sad at home and blame the weather and the ugliness of the buildings, but on the tropical island we learn that the state of the skies and the appearance of our dwellings can never on their own underwrite our joy nor condemn us to misery."

-- Alain de Botton

#Home Quotes #Sky Quotes #Weather Quotes

“I'm only interested in working on records that legitimately reflect the band's own perception of their music and existence. If you commit yourselves to that as a tenet of the recording methodology, then I will bust my ***** for you.”

Source : "This Letter Steve Albini Wrote To Nirvana Is Just Incredible" by Dan Martin, www.buzzfeed.com. September 26, 2013.
“All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.”
“Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.”
“While I wouldn't object to work at a restaurant or a different place that sells decent-or-better food, I think that I can learn much more by becoming a coder.”
“I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.”
“If you are relaxing and subconsciously thinking about your coming race, you are going to perform at just about 100 percent efficiency.”
“With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names. I did not want to remain a martyr to something that I absolutely believed was immoral and wrong. It's as simple as that.”
“I always love to see a Democratic party in America. I've heard people's reservations about the situation between choosing between Hillary and Trump. It just seems that you can't have this man in that position. It completely confounds me why anybody would want such a hateful person in charge. It doesn't make sense to me as a human being.”

Source : Source: chicago.gopride.com

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