"I have tried to write songs quickly that get scrapped. I've also taken a long time on songs that get scrapped because you can over-think something, and you've squeezed the life out of it. As opposed to work of art, it looks like a really great work of craftsmanship."

-- Boots Riley

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“I prefer to express myself physically, or non-verbally. I prefer just to react without having a lot of dialogue.”
“I hold the world speed record downhill, in a Rover. I think it was 17 kilometers per hour, downhill.”
“Don't close the book when bad things happen in your life! Just turn the page and start a new chapter!”
“The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.”

Source : "WWI: The Battle That Split Europe, And Families". "All things considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. April 30, 2011.
“Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.”

Source : Edmund Pendleton (1967). “The Letters and Papers of Edmund Pendleton, 1734-1803”
“Your peers are people in the business who are going to push you forward. So I think it's one of the reasons that Syracuse students come out truly ready for the industry because we've been rubbing elbows with people who are likeminded and just as 'pushy' or as ready to go as we are.”
“Heaven isn't an extrapolation of earthly thinking; Earth is an extension of Heaven, made by the Creator King.”
“The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What does this say about time? Matter, that thing the most solid and the well-known, which you are holding in your hands and which makes up your body, is now known to be mostly empty space. Empty space and points of light. What does this say about the reality of the world?”

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