"Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Donald Fagen

#Popularity Quotes

“Live for yourself. Love those around you - but realise they have their own agendas.”
“Nevada involved cattle, right? First of all, I thought the Lord owned the cattle on the thousand hills. What about the fact that even in early Scripture, the issue of water and forage rights is actually talked about by Abraham?”
“By leveraging their freedom from the bonds of location, corporations could now dictate the economic policy of governments.”

Source : Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.22, Simon and Schuster
“Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from within, from a fixed purpose and faith in one's fellow men.”
“Our lives become the sum of all whom we have loved. It is important not to waste anyone. One task of living out the last half of life is excavating and recovering all of those whom we loved in the first half. Thus, the recovery of lost loves becomes an important way in which the past affects the present.”
“Work is doing what you now enjoy for the sake of a future which you clearly see and desire. Drudgery is doing under strain what you don't now enjoy and for no end that you can now appreciate.”

Source : Richard Clarke Cabot (1914). “What Men Live by: Work, Play, Love, Worship”
“Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.”

Source : "George Ayittey: How to Defeat a Dictator". Interview with Thor Halvorssen, www.huffingtonpost.com.
“I hate being awake at three in the morning. It is the godforsaken heart of darkness when the body runs slow, and the brain runs slower, and all you want to do is sleep. But I had promises to keep, and miles to go before I could sleep. Or at least a couple of miracles to perform before I could go to bed.”

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