"I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me."

-- Lou Reed

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“I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what I enjoyed, rather than what I wanted : and this gave me sometimes such secret comforts, that I cannot express them ; and which I take notice of here, to put those discontented people in mind of it, who cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them, because they see and covet something that he has not given them. All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.”

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“With regard to what is designed really well, I think people are the best-designed objects in the world. Seriously.”
“Every time we give in to selfishness and say â€œNoâ€ to God, we spoil his loving plan for us.”
“The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.”
“The second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven by our experience of the past 6 years.”
“Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.”

Source : "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (The Phoenix, a Linguistic Phenomenon)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.
“I personally have more faith than the average writer in people's willingness to be complicated, and so I'm thrilled by what's happened. I'm elated at audiences' willingness to handle complexity. In some sense, I feel like my belief in what people are capable of is being validated.”

Source : "he Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.
“I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, 'I'm going to mop the floor with your face.' I said, 'You'll be sorry.' He said, 'Oh, yeah? Why?' I said, 'Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well.'”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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