"It's terrible for the culture of music. Like anything that is purely economic, it ignores the most important component."

-- Tom Waits

#Important Quotes #Culture Quotes #Economic Quotes

“Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.”
“Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.”
“It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.”
“When I was 7 years old I saw Jimmy Connors make someone carry his bag, as though he were Julius Caesar. I vowed then and there that I would always carry my own.”
“I was born in Santa Monica but brought up abroad so I don't use English much.”
“If men, who in their hearts are friends to a government, forbear giving it their utmost assistance against its enemies, they put it in the power of a few desperate men to ruin the welfare of those who are much superior to them in strength, number, and interest.”
“Christmas never would have caught on if it had been called Celebrate a Little Jew's Birthday.”
“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”

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