"I felt like hip-hop was my music, it was like my outsider music... but then my mom started answering our phone, 'Yo, what's up.' She was hearing me talk to my friends. I was like, 'No, mom, don't cop the hip-hop talk."

-- Jenny Lewis

#Mom Quotes #Phones Quotes #Hip Hop Quotes

“Men are climbing to the moon, but they donâ€™t seem interested in the beatingÂ humanÂ heart.”
“Perfection is the lowest standard of achievement. Doing is the highest.”
“Many leaders rely on confidence, the ability to make timely decisions, and hold themselves and others accountable. But some of these leaders have not yet developed resonance, the ability to read the room, understand and appreciate the thoughts and emotions of others.”
“The Holy Father has acted as the Vicar of Christ and acted like Christ himself, who never refused to talk to anyone.”
“Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.”
“Joe Lauzon is not seen as the top guy in his division, He's not the champion. Do you know how many people go f--- crazy when I saw Joe Lauzon is on the card? Because people love to watch him fight. Joe Lauzon has won more fighter bonuses than I think anybody. If you are that guy, the system works for you. But if you are not that guy, then boo f--- hoo, you don't matter.”
“..leaders should be looked upon as being 'in front', 'sharing' rather than 'showing' the way... it is the followers who save leaders and therefore make them.”
“Just like an ordinary guitar string, a fundamental string can vibrate in different modes. And it is these different modes of vibration of the string that are understood in string theory as being the different elementary particles.”

Source : Lee Smolin (1999). “The Life of the Cosmos”, p.65, Oxford University Press, USA

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