"How many seconds are there in a year? If I tell you there are 3.155 x 10^7, you won't even try to remember it. On the other hand, who could forget that, to within half a percent, pi seconds is a nanocentury."

-- Tom Duff

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“Birds and the people who love freedom have something common: They must fly freely to feel that they are alive!”
“In general, you have great artists who have died far too early and who have left great cultural impact. If you look at people like Vincent van Gogh or Jean-Michel Basquiat-there's a long, long list of artists who have died in tragic circumstances, and far, far too early.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.”

Source : " Songs and freedom in West Papua" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2011.
“The poem in Where Good Swimmers Drown are love poems. But love poems that defy the divisions between emotion and intellect, private and public, life and art, writer and reader. To read Elbe's poems is to discover not only what it means to be in love, but what it means to be alive.”
“I'm interested in doing anything and everything that I can to squeeze the creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm kind of a performance rat, that's what I want to do, I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. I just love putting creativity into a performance.”
“Lord knows, if it's on the internet, it's got to be true!”
“We dream of the perfect wave, the perfect job, the perfect house. When we get there, we dream of something else,”
“A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.”

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