"it ain't no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones"

-- Tom Waits

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“Tell me it's never been done. Because the only real laws in this world-the only things we really know-are the two postulates of relativity, the three laws of Newton, the four laws of thermodynamics, and Maxwell's equation-no, scratch that, the only things we really know are Maxwell's equations, the three laws of Newton, the two postulates of relativity, and the periodic table. That's all we know that's true. All the rest are man's laws”
“If you strip the horrors of history from history, the flip side of that is you strip the nobility of rising above such horrors.”
“Are you always a smartass?' Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.”
“My recurring nightmare is that someday I will be faced with a panel: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all of whom will be telling me everything I got wrong about them. I know that Johnson's out there saying, 'Why is it that what you wrote about the Kennedys is twice as long as the book you wrote about me?”
“Nowadays, especially when you think of electronic music, it's like, the producer is mostly the one who makes the music or the beats and everything. But I am more, since I'm that old, when I started to make music the producer was just sitting in the back shouting and drinking beer.”

Source : "Fever Ray". Interview with Marc Hogan, pitchfork.com. March 30, 2009.
“I love aging. Why would I want to be 21 for the rest of my life?”
“Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.”
“I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.”

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