"Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade; and therefore they are no more good than they are evil."

-- Marcus Aurelius

#Pain Quotes #Men Quotes #Evil Quotes

“It seemed to be a makeshift replacement for love, absenting oneself from stifling atmospheres, because love basically was a torrential storm of feeling; it thrived only in partnership with laughing generosity and truthfulness.”
“One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.”
“I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn't start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.”
“The only difference between a rich man and a poor man, is that the poor man suffers uncomfortably, while the rich man suffers comfortably.”
“I try to get through emotional pain and not go around it, it always ends sooner that way. I also use chocolate.”
“I just don't think it's true that people can't do something else after they've done something that seems so permanent.”

Source : "Ex-'Blue's Clues' host Steve Burns an indie rocker at heart" by Joe Dangelo, www.mtv.com. April 29, 2002.
“The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.”

Source : Interview with Art Connor, www.tbolin.com. February 7, 2001.
“Nobody thought about having more money than you could ever spend.”

Source : "From the Vaults: Slick Rick, circa 98-99". Interview with Adisa Banjoko, allhiphop.com. March 1, 2005.

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