"In my day, at 12 years old, which was 38 years ago, we worked out in summer months for two and a half hours. Today someone in that age group might work out for four hours, two hours in the morning and two at night"

-- Mark Spitz

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“I don't feel bound by the ebbs and flows of musical trends, or what's happening with new music in general. I always had a fascination with that sound. It's a mixture of the idea that something could be going wrong along with the idea of bending constrained, Westernized music out of tune. But because I wasn't copying an idea, and it just came from somewhere inside me, it felt like a birth of something that most people didn't understand at the time.”
“University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden.”
“The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing.”
“The conservative side of our political spectrum has had an outsized voice over the last few years. I think especially since the establishment of Fox News, which has created an echo chamber in which people just hear the same ideas repeated ad infinitum. And you know, it's just basic advertising, basically. You hear the same idea over and over again. Or you can call it propaganda if you like.”

Source : "Bill Moyers: Where the Right Went Wrong". Interview with Bill Moyers, www.truth-out.org. February 12, 2012.
“I'm a real big electronic music nut; when I was young I listened to musique concrÃ¨te, German music from Cologne in the early 50s, all kinds of stuff.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“We say of the oak, How grand of girth! Of the willow we say, How slender! And yet to the soft grass clothing the earth How slight is the praise we render.”

Source : Edgar Fawcett (1891). “Songs of Doubt and Dream (poems)”
“I love pushing my body to the limit & seeing how far I can take it before it breaks.”
“Sometimes you just gotta let sh-t go and say 'to hell with it' and move on.”

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