"A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden "worthless" land now has an airport on it."

-- Neil Abercrombie

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“A game master or teacher who was primarily concerned with being close enough to the "innermost meaning" would be a very bad teacher. To be candid, I myself, for example, have never in my life said a word to my pupils about the "meaning" of music; if there is one it does not need my explanations. On the other hand I have always made a great point of having my pupils count their eighths and sixteenths nicely. Whatever you become, teacher, scholar, or musician, have respect for the "meaning" but do not imagine that it can be taught.”
“David Foster Wallace: I think one of the insidious lessons about TV is the meta-lesson that youâ€™re dumb. This is all you can do. This is easy, and youâ€™re the sort of person who really just wants to sit in a chair and have it easy. When in fact there are parts of us, in a way, that are a lot more ambitious than that. And what we need, I thinkâ€”and Iâ€™m not saying Iâ€™m the person to do it. But I think what we need is seriously engaged art, that can teach again that weâ€™re smart. And that thereâ€™s stuff that TV and moviesâ€”although theyâ€™re great at certain thingsâ€”cannot give us.”

Source : David Lipsky (2010). “Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace”, p.71, Broadway Books
“If I could work with any actor it would have to be Johnny Depp. He is cool.”
“Dump â€˜Em is the non-confrontationalistâ€™s dream. With her easy-to-follow scripts and step-by-step plans, Jodyne Speyer provides a clear roadmap for ending even the most difficult relationships.”
“The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.”
“Because he stinks on the power play. He stinks. I don't know why. I wish I could put him on the power play, but every time I put him on, he stinks.”
“Everything about Mark Zuckerberg is pure hacker. Hackers don't take realities of the world for granted; they seek to break and rebuild what they don't like. They seek to outsmart the world.”

Source : "The Irony of the Social Media Era: It Was Created By the World’s Least Social People" by Sarah Lacy, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2012.
“Your Self, Aware Presence, knows no resistance to any appearance and, as such, is happiness itself; like the empty space of a room it cannot be disturbed and is, therefore, peace itself; like this page, it is intimately one with whatever appears on it and is thus love itself; and like water that is not affected by the shape of a wave, it is pure freedom. Causeless joy, imperturbable peace, love that knows no opposite and freedom at the heart of all experience....this is your ever-present nature under all circumstances.”

Source : Rupert Spira (2016). “Presence, Volume I: The Art of Peace and Happiness”, New Harbinger Publications

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