"There's lots of interesting stuff happening in the world. Lots of good and bad things, and there's interest in music still, which there always will be, which is always a good thing."

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Courtney Barnett

#Interesting Quotes #World Quotes #Stuff Quotes

“I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is not the past definite of what was, since it is no more, or even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the future anterior of what I shall have been for what I am in the process of becoming.”

Source : Jacques Lacan, Alan Sheridan (1980). “Écrits: a selection”
“Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time, brush their teeth, feel nostalgia, scrub stains, have religions and political parties and laws, wear keepsakes, apologize years after an offense, whisper, fear themselves, interpret dreams, hide their genitalia, shave, bury time capsules, and can choose not to eat something for reasons of conscience. The justifications for eating animals and for not eating them are often identical: we are not them.”
“Self-realization is effortless. What you are trying to find is what you already are.”
“He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.”
“Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted...”
“How strange it is to be anything at all”

Source : "Song: 'In the Aeroplane Over the Sea'". 1997.
“The ignorant are a reservoir of daring. It almost seems that those who have yet to discover the known are particularly equipped for dealing with the unknown. The unlearned have often rushed in where the learned feared to tread, and it is the credulous who are tempted to attempt the impossible. They know not whither they are going, and give chance a chance.”
“Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the vested interests would get alerted. You must be aware that railways are full of such elements and my fight is against them.”

Source : "Railway Budget". The Times of India, July 07, 2004.

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