"Them as counts counts moren them as dont count"

-- Russell Hoban

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“I often don't go to sleep and work through the night. I can't seem to do my vocal takes if there's light outside. There's a gentleness to the night that leads me in my stride.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. March 15, 2011.
“Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now”
“Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.”

Source : "The Macintosh at 20: Interview with Jef Raskin". Interview with Berkeley Groks, grokscience.wordpress.com. March 3, 2004.
“travel never made a bore interesting; it only makes for a well-traveled bore, in the same way coffee makes for a wide-awake drunk. In fact, the more a bore travels, the worse he gets. The only advantage in it for his friends and family is that he isn't home as much.”

Source : Peg Bracken (1973). “But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
“Or so we don't think about how we're just vulnerable specks trying to survive on a violent, tumultuous planet, at the mercy of hurricanes and volcanoes and asteroids and terrorists and disease and a million other things. We concentrate on having little thoughts so we don't have BIG THOUGHTS. . . . You've got to ignore the one big truth - life is fatal.”
“I don't want to be Marilyn Monroe. In many ways, that's a good comparison. Because Marilyn Monroe was a sexpot, all that stuff that I have no interest in. For me, it's much easier to just try to make people laugh than to try to be the hottest thing in the world.”

Source : "Fashion, food and fun are dear to Amanda Bynes". Interview with Tali Yahalom, usatoday30.usatoday.com. August 22, 2007.
“If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures?”

Source : Martin Gardner (2005). “The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings”, p.136, Courier Corporation
“I feel like half the battle is not giving up and staying positive. If you don't have anyone in your corner or anyone in your ear, being positive helps you believe that you can get through it.”

Source : Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

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