"All the things that people like me supposedly don't do, I do."

-- Keith Olbermann

“This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.”
“I've experienced tons of failure. I've been making music for 30 years, and I'd say failure and success have happened in equal measure.”
“As a Roman philosopher, Cicero, said of him a few hundred years later, Socrates 'called philosophy down from the sky and established her in the towns and introduced her into homes and forced her to investigate life, ethics, good and evil.”
“You always want what you canâ€™t have.”
“Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.”
“Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.”

Source : Paulo Freire (1985). “The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation”, p.122, Greenwood Publishing Group
“I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage.”
“Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.”

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