"I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats."

-- Dee Dee Ramone

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“I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.”
“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.”
“Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.”
“And the '99 finals at the French - if I had won that one easily, no one would have talked about it.”
“Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.”
“Some of my favorite movies are just movies that are just good stories, and aren't necessarily big budget movies or anything.”
“Writing on the blog, you want to get attention and make strong claims. In academic work, that often doesn't pay, so sometimes it's a little bit difficult going back and forth to navigate these differences.”
“Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.”

Source : Ernest Becker (1985). “Escape from Evil”, Free Press

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