"What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things."

-- Alan Watts

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“Wake up! No one is going to save you. No one is going to take care of your family or your retirement. No one is going to â€œmake thingsâ€ work out for you. The only way to do so is to utilize every moment of every day at 10X levels.”
“All I want to do is write songs about funny characters I made up.”

Source : "POP QUIZ / Q & A With Limp Bizkit's Wes Borland". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. March 18, 2001.
“I feel there is always room for good music. I want to reach people's soul with my lyrics through whatever vessel God chooses.”
“If it suddenly became impossible for us to cover up all the junk we normally hide from the rest of humanity, I have a feeling we would all get real motivated to deal with the source of what ails us.”
“Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is very bad.”
“My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us.”
“Become genuinely interested in other people.”
“It's not always expected of filmmakers to do stereotyped stories. But one has to be willing to travel to festivals and hook up with people, engage people intellectually about your passion and the kinds of films that interest you, and sooner or later you find people that have the same affinity that you have.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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