"It's wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else's enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose."

-- Thomas More

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“I discovered that I never really used Helvetica but I like to look at it. I like the VW beetle, too, although I've never driven one.”
“Nobody wants to hear Metallica at lunchtime.”

Source : Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. May 15, 2012.
“If it has to be put in a box, it's a country record. But it's hard to do that, because it is inspired and influenced by the history of music in two different people's backgrounds. I think the focal point for many is the harmonies, and I think that is what is special and unique about it.”
“You don't ever lose your dream. You don't give that up. I tell that to the players. If you don't have dreams, you don't have anything to live for.”
“The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.”

Source : "The humble programmer" by Edsger Dijkstra in "Communications of the ACM", Volume 15, Issue 10 (pp. 859-866), dl.acm.org. October 1972.
“I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.”
“My camera is my compass; it's guided me to so many different places.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I think we all waste a lot of time measuring ourselves up against impossible standards in lots of ways. We need to learn a few things, one of which being that physical beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, including a lot that the women's magazines have never even thought of.”

Source : Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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