"I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking."

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Source : Designer Magazine Interview, designermagazine.tripod.com.

Graham Coxon

#Drinking Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Cynicism Quotes

“The average English critic is a don manquÃ©, hopelessly parochial when not exaggeratedly teutonophile, over whose desk must surely hang the motto (presumably in Gothic lettering) "Above all no enthusiasm".”

Source : 'Opera' December 1950
“I'm fairly in tune with what's private with my husband and with me.”
“I was next to Bobby [Kennedy] when he was shot. It was hideous. Part of me wanted to crawl away. I couldn't... I still wake up in the night and think about it. I even remember the f-stop. It was 1.4.”
“Make a difference. Live a life that matters.”
“Looking out of my window this lovely spring morning I see an azalea in full bloom. No, no! I do not see that; though that is the only way I can describe what I see. That is a proposition, a sentence, a fact; but what I perceive is not proposition, sentence, fact, but only an image which I make intelligible in part by means of a statement of fact. This statement is abstract; but what I see is concrete.”
“Successful people form the habit of doing what failures don't like to do. They like the results they get by doing what they don't necessarily enjoy.”
“One of the most melancholy consequences of this habit of deferring to other nations, and to other systems, is the fact that it causes us to undervalue the high blessings we so peculiarly enjoy; to render us ungrateful towards God, and to make us unjust to our fellow men, by throwing obstacles in their progress towards liberty.”
“We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.”

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