"I donâ€™t know how to explain it.â€ â€œTry words. If that doesnâ€™t work, weâ€™ll move on to interpretive dance."

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Devon Monk

#Moving Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I can't believe we really made it, I'm partly surprised.”
“Utopias have their value -- nothing so wonderfully expands the imaginative horizons of human potentialities -- but as guides to conduct they can prove literally fatal.”

Source : Isaiah Berlin (2013). “The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas”, p.15, Princeton University Press
“Confusion is the only state of mind we have where we are really out of our patterns and what we expect. Because of that, you're open to new experiences. The irritation in concert performances is really important. When people get really irritated, they listen on the front of their stool and ask, "What's going on?" If I deliver what they expect - sad, soft piano music - then people would just shut down.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.”
“the fastest-growing brand of religion is of the magical 'name it and claim it' variety, in which the deity exists only to meet one's immediate, self-identified needs.”
“Sometimes there is a common threat that can produce a common interest in putting aside all the differences in trying to find a constructive solution.”

Source : "U.N. Envoy: Solution To Syrian Conflict Must Be A 'Political One'". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. July 30, 2015.
“I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment.”
“In the New World, you'll kick your own ***** and I'll wash my own brain. I'll be my own parents and you'll be you own wife. And vise versa. That'll be normal in the New World - different from the Old World, where everyone except me is to blame for my ignorance and you call on everyone except yourself to give you what you need. I'll push my own buttons and right my own wrongs. You'll wake yourself up and sing your won songs.”

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