"Reason's a thing we dimly see in sleep."

-- Rebecca West

#Sleep Quotes #Reason Quotes

“Some people, I think, think that because I don't take it as seriously as a lot of the girls do, that I frown upon modeling or think it's stupid. I don't at all. This is my life. I would be nothing without this. But I really don't take it seriously.”
“My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.”
“Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.”

Source : "Making Presidential History". Online chat, www.slate.com. August 9, 2007.
“I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families.”
“....the popular music of Jamaica, the music of the people, is an essentially experiential music, not merely in the sense that the people experience the music, but also in the sense that the music is true to the historical experience, that the music reflects the historical experience. It is the spiritual expression of the historical experience of the Afro-Jamaican.”
“The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us weâ€™re not the first to die.”
“I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and you can see a lot of echoes of Andy in Ryan's work. Like Andy, Ryan's finger is so on the pulse of culture that he's ahead of culture. Their aesthetic and their vision of the world are very similar.”
“Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.”

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