"I think you never want to limit yourself to one style of anything. Why put those limitations on yourself?"

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Source : "Mike Ness of Social Distortion". Interview with Matt Schild, music.avclub.com. January 18, 2011.

Mike Ness

#Thinking Quotes #Style Quotes #Want Quotes

“One of my favorite sketches, and a popular comedy formula, is to put someone with a mental handicap in some kind of unlikely situation. For example: The retarded gynecologist, the retarded Jesus, the retarded Osama Bin Laden. It works. It's funny. Inappropriate? I dunno. I feel like I'm a pretty good judge of what crosses the line of good taste being that I am retarded. Socially perhaps, but severly retarded.”
“In spite of everything, there is still no more wonderful vocation than to continue to tolerate events and to work on in the name of our mission, in the name of that spirit which lives on in our teaching and in our vision of humanity and art, the spirit which can lead us Jews down the true and just path. But along the way, peoples will spill our blood, and that of others.”
“If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.”

Source : Geraldine Brooks (2006). “March”, p.74, Penguin
“We were the children of white flight, the first generation to grow up in postwar American suburbs. By the time the â€™60s rolled around, many of us, the gay ones especially, were eager to make a U-turn and fly back the other way. Whether or not the city was obsolete, we couldnâ€™t imagine our personal futures in any other form. The street and the skyline signified to us what the lawn and the highway signified to our parents: a place to breathe free.”

Source : "The Secret History of 2 Columbus Circle" by Herbert Muschamp, www.nytimes.com. January 8, 2006.
“I am thankful for all the blessings and talents I have been given, but most of all I am thankful for my loving and supportive family.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.”

Source : "Ronnie's spectre". Interview With Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2006.
“An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer.”
“There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.”

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