"From the bottom of my heart, I wanted to give up; I wanted to give up on living. There was no denying that tomorrow would come, and the day after tomorrow, and so next week, too. I never thought it would be this hard, but I would go on living in the midst of a glomy depression, and that made me feel sick to the depths of my soul. In spite of the tempest raging within me, I walked the night path calmly."

-- Banana Yoshimoto

#Giving Up Quotes #Heart Quotes #Night Quotes

“I've been trying to grow up some myself, in my heart, and it's happening quick and I feel good about it, and I want that to come out in the music.”
“The sense that thousands and millions of children and young people are being sexually violated and that thereâ€™s this huge silence about it around me angers me.”

Source : "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly" with Fred de Sam Lazaro, www.pbs.org. January 5, 2007.
“Fermat never cared to publish his investigations, but was always perfectly ready, as we see from his letters, to acquaint his friends and contemporaries with his results.”
“I'm not interested in popular culture, particularly. I'm not against it, I'm not avoiding it, but I'm not interested in it as a force in life.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I'm a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we've sold a lot of records, let's sell some more.”
“People look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful white male”

Source : "'I am just a lucky nerd': Jon Hamm on why he can't believe he got the part of Mad Men's Don Draper" by David Wigg, www.dailymail.co.uk. February 4, 2011.
“The students who work with me believe in science in service of society, not science in service of career building.”
“I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.”

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