"I think the pursuit of trying to understand things is really a critical issue. I see the issue of life and death in everything I do. I'm trying to find answers. It can be quite frustrating."

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Robert Longo

#Thinking Quotes #Issues Quotes #Life And Death Quotes

“I am a firm believer that upon release, ex-offenders should be afforded a second chance to become productive citizens by providing rehabilitation and education that will help them join the workforce.”
“You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard.”
“This is the great new problem of mankind. We have inherited a large house, a great â€˜world houseâ€™ in which we have to live togetherâ€“ black and white, Easterner and Westerner, Gentile and Jew, Catholic and Protestant, Muslim and Hinduâ€“ a family unduly separated in ideas, culture and interest, who, because we can never again live apart, must learn somehow to live with each other in peace.”
“God is dead and I am his replacement.”
“It is easy to lie with statistics; it is easier to lie without them.”
“It's just assumed that a horror sequel is going to be bad. It's never going to be as good as the first one.”
“As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.”
“Music is made of what we do when we move, and we can only move in certain ways, in certain ranges of tempo because of the inherent constraints that our bodies offer, or you can call them 'affordances' - that's another word for me. It's a little more positive; doesn't make it seem like a limitation, but rather, a set of opportunities. You can say that that's part of music making, but there's also the imagination. The power of the imagination is kind of trumping - sorry to have to use that word.”

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