"Nothing is properly one's duty but what is also one's interest."

-- John Wilkins

#Duty Quotes #Interest Quotes

“I always spend too much time on getting the details right. That's the problem with computers. They make it possible to change too much of the music after it's been recorded.”

Source : Interview with Dominique Leone, pitchfork.com. September 29, 2008.
“In NÃ¡huatl, the language of the Aztec world, one key word for poet was 'tlamatine,' meaning 'the one who knows,' or 'he who knows something.' Poets were considered 'sages of the word,' who meditated on human enigmas and explored the beyond, the realm of the gods.”
“I want to be one of the greats. I want to be the pound for pound king and I know what it takes to get there.”
“Until you accept responsibility for your life, someone else runs your life.”
“Today's coastal development along with hurricane amnesia places modern man on a collision course with catastrophe if the lessons of history are ignored.”
“I can't stop watching 'Pan Am.' When I was growing up, my father worked as an engineer in Turkey, and we always flew Pan Am. The stewardesses were so glamorous! When they gave me a set of those golden wings, I felt very grown-up. Not only is the show's plot full of mystery and infidelity, they get the period details just right.”
“Governments resort to inflation with popular support because the people apparently are naïve enough to believe that they can have their cake and eat it, too.”

Source : Leonard E. Read (1990). “The freedom philosophy”, Foundation for Economic Education
“The events of September 11 would have been impossible if there were no airport security system at all. If average Americans were allowed to carry their personal firearms on board our aircraft ..., the chances that several passengers on each flight would have been armed-and thus able to shoot the hijackers, preventing the Trade Center and Pentagon hits-would have been quite substantial.”

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