"Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin."

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Source : "My Book Led To A Man’s Execution" by Pete Earley, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2012.

Pete Earley

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“The irony of conversing with a stranger is that your individual lives always look very different and personal, but then you strip away the nuances to find a common likeness buried inside of diversity. Take away money and geography and weâ€™re all just flesh and blood and soul. Weâ€™re all dealing with sin and forgiveness, love and hate, glory and shame.”
“I've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow”
“The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.”
“In the earlier days I did most of the song writing by myself, and I got to a place in my life where I felt it was necessary to go outside my box and get some outside inspiration.”

Source : "Interview: Jason Wade from Lifehouse". FanBolt Interview, www.fanbolt.com. February 1, 2010.
“The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm in control of every situation. I'm rarely in control of any situation.”
“At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more, half-successful, effort of creation, and produce the Classicism that is common to all dying Cultures. The soul thinks once again, and in Romanticism looks back piteously to its childhood; then finally, weary, reluctant, cold, it loses its desire to be, and, as in Imperial Rome, wishes itself out of the overlong daylight and back in the darkness of protomysticism in the womb of the mother in the grave.”

Source : Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.75, Oxford University Press, USA
“Maybe the problem is that I was never taught to enjoy failure as an opportunity.”
“For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.”

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