"I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty."

-- Alex Kapranos

#Thinking Quotes #World Quotes #Modesty Quotes

“We treat this world of ours as though we have a spare in the trunk.”
“Smokey Wilson was like my Gandhi. If I had run into somebody else in prison, with a different set of values, the world might have never known one of the greatest boxing talents ever to come out of Philadelphia.”
“Too often we tell kids pleasant stories devoid of truth, and stories without truth are not good stories. Our audience deserves more from us.”
“... for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long.”
“When the state or federal government controls the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.”
“It is an old custom of these people to pick up a stone and toss it on the pile. Perhaps it is a symbolical lightening of the load they carry, perhaps a small offering to the gods of the trails.”
“Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.”
“Conditional love is love that is turned off and on....Some parents only show their love after a child has done something that pleases them. "I love you, honey, for cleaning your room!" Children who think they need to earn love become people pleasers, or perfectionists. Those who are raised on conditional love never really feel loved.”

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