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“In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.”
Source : Douglas R. Hofstadter (2008). “I Am a Strange Loop”, p.363, Basic Books
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“Can't make chicken salad out of chicken noodle”
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“Every improv must be song specific. It has to grow organically out of the particular elements involved or it's just glib self-expression. I hate when I feel like I'm the lead guitarist in a rock band. We all gotta be going somewhere strong together, you know?”
Source : "The Only Late is Never". Interview with Marc Masters, Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. November 12, 2010.
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“In the eighteenth century it was often convenient to regard man as a clockwork automaton. In the nineteenth century, with Newtonian physics pretty well assimilated and a lot of work in thermodynamics going on, man was looked on as a heat engine, about 40 per cent efficient. Now in the twentieth century, with nuclear and subatomic physics a going thing, man had become something which absorbs X-rays, gamma rays and neutrons.”
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“I'm not good at texting because I'm an older generation, old school. And nobody ever listens to the answering machine anymore. It's terrible.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“If the Latter-day Saints will walk up to their privileges, and exercise faith in the name of Jesus Christ, and live in the enjoyment of the fullness of the Holy Ghost constantly day by day, there is nothing on the face of the earth that they could ask for, that would not be given to them. The Lord is waiting to be very gracious unto this people, and to pour out upon them riches, honor, glory, and power, even that they may possess all things according to the promises He has made through His apostles and prophets.”
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“I'm more than a little suspicious of humor in poems, because I think it can at times be a way of getting a reaction out of a reader, or an audience, that is something closer to relief: i.e., thank god this isn't poetry, but stand-up comedy. Some poets are really funny, but more often poets are fourth rate stand up comics at best. But they benefit from the sheer relief of the audience.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“History is littered with dead good men”