"I turned what was a wonderful case of self-reliance into a case of self-exile. Which is not uncommon, I think, in people who grow really early and have to learn how to take care of themselves. They have trouble hinging their lives with anybody else."

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Leigh Newman

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“Rage or fear... It oscillates. Rage I need to motivate me to try things that I can't ordinarily do - as I'm a lazy man. Fear - to keep pushing harder so we don't lose what we've accomplished.”
“A unitary urbanism â€” the synthesis of art and technology that we call for â€” must be constructed according to certain new values of life, values which now need to be distinguished and disseminated.”
“I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them. Finally the Foo Fighters stuff happened when I just went to the studio down the street from my house and recorded some stuff in about five or six days, and all these people wanted to release it as an album. I wanted to release it on my own, with no photos and no names on it.”
“And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.”
“There's arrogance for you. I think all artists insert themselves into their subject matter.”
“Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.”
“Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work.”

Source : "Punished by Rewards: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes". Book by Alfie Kohn, p. 205, 1999.
“If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.”

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