"I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen."

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Source : "We Are Alive" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. July 30, 2012.

Jon Landau

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“Celebrity is seen by a huge amount of people and certainly myself for a while as the pinnacle of society, of success. It is revered almost religiously, both the institution and its quickly growing member base.”
“War is a farmerâ€™s son from Kansas trying to kill a factory workerâ€™s son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why.”
“I don't know how you change that. There's hardly anybody left like me in the Democratic Party in Congress. These districts have been so gerrymandered that, in most of them, a Democrat can't win. Somebody like me trying to start off today, he'd never get endorsed. Because I'm too conservative.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young.”

Source : Lemmy Kilmister (2012). “White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography”, p.169, Simon and Schuster
“He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.”

Source : Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Scaramouche Plus Bardelys the Magnificent”, p.16, DoctorZed Publishing
“We must see ourselves in community with all other people at local, national and global levels. While this may seem superficially easy, it is actually not. Western culture, now globally dominant, has systematically trained us to think and act as though we are separate individuals, often in competition with each other for scarce resources of one sort or another, primarily money, which has be-come the perceived means to all we want and need in life.”
“At the end of the day, it's not about what you have or even what you've accomplished. It's about what you've done with those accomplishments. Its about who you've lifted up, who you've made better. It about what you've given back" (23).”

Source : Denzel Washington, Daniel Paisner (2006). “A Hand to Guide Me”, p.23, Meredith Books
“That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.”

Source : Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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