"William James once said: "Progress is a terrible thing." It is more than that: it is also a highly ambiguous notion. For who knowsbut that a little further on the way a bridge may not have collapsed or a crevice split the earth?"

-- Johan Huizinga

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“Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There is a witchery in the sea, its songs and stories, and in the mere sight of a ship, and the sailor's dress, especially to a young mind, which has done more to man navies, and fill merchantmen, than all the pressgangs of Europe.”
“Business is business. You know how that works. Because stations run on ad money. If they're playing a gay artist, then ad money dries up. So they have to be careful.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“My only preference is to have a lot of variety and diversity in the material that I work on.”

Source : Source: movieweb.com
“I am against the death penalty.”
“The more I sleep the less I have to hang out with everyone”
“I think the more the listener can contribute to the song, the better; the more they become part of the song, and they fill in the blanks. Rather than tell them everything, you save your details for things that exist. Like what color the ashtray is. How far away the doorway was. So when you're talking about intangible things like emotions, the listener can fill in the blanks and you just draw the foundation.”
“As a kid growing up in a lower-class neighbourhood, where everyone around me was listening to hip hop, what was I doing listening to new wave, and why was that my favourite music? I don't know why, but it just spoke to me.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com

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