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“the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.”
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“I could've written songs about, for example, the Paris attacks as they happened and have the song out the day after, but doing this project and following the news made me realize how much I miss deeper nuances in the news reporting. There's already so many quick opinions and angles being thrown in your face, so I avoided writing about things like that and tried focusing on the smaller, more seemingly insignificant things. The things you would find in the back of the newspaper or the back of your mind.”
Source : Source: pitchfork.com
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“The only thing that can set aside a law as wrong is a better law, or an idea of a better law. And the only thing that an give a law the quality of better or worse is the concrete result which it promotes or fails to promote.”
Source : "Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights". Book by William Ernest Hocking. Ch. VII, Natural Right, § 35, p. 76, 1926.
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“The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the 'Holy Grail' is economic growth.”
Source : "Spotlight: Yann Arthus-Bertrand, cinematographer and Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme". UN News Centre Interview, www.un.org. February 7, 2011. 
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“I commit her to memory. When I'm alone, I feel a strange yearning, the hunger of a man fasting not because he believes but because he's ashamed. Not the cleansing hunger of the devout, but the feverish hunger of the hypocrite. I let her go every evening only because there's nothing I can do to stop her.”
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“The only thing that frightens me a little is when I'm called Kevin rather than Fred, but that's how people have known me for so many years. So, I can't really blame them.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.”
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“The best way way to get a visual image is not to think of a visual image.”
