"Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential self."

-- John D. MacDonald

#Music Quotes #Night Quotes #Self Quotes

“When you are made to choose between two good things... Don't just think of what you'll get when you pick one. But think of what you'll lose when you don't choose the other.”
“Joy may be a miser, But Sorrow's purse is free.”
“Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.”

Source : Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co
“Where, oh, where are my WWE ice cream bars?!”
“I not only hope that YouTube channels compete with television shows for viewers and revenue, I hope they develop a bitter rivalry which could only be settled by an elaborate medieval tournament where the two entities fight to the death in a steel cage.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap”
“Tolerating somebody else's beliefs is not failing to criticize them. It's not persecuting them for having those beliefs. That is absolutely important. You should not persecute people for their beliefs. It doesn't mean you can't criticize their beliefs.”

Source : "Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason", billmoyers.com. June 30, 2006.
“You do just have to go back to moral philosophy and you've got to say, okay, there is greed, people do want more and more, but then what restrains them and what restrained them in the past was a view of life in which one's satisfaction wasn't the most important thing, that you just, you needed enough and you could say, "Enough is enough." Maybe religion will get you there, maybe just classic moral philosophy, but you have to have some of that, or else you're always on the gravy train.”

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