"I remember my father playing me Same Situation when I was a nipper, and saying how nobody since has done melodies as well as Joni Mitchell. I concur. The thing that most affected me was just her resonance, and that is something she must have been born with."

-- Laura Marling

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“Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.”
“Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.”
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

Source : Norman Vincent Peale (1970). “Norman Vincent Peale's treasury of courage and confidence”
“You never know exactly what pop cultural moment a show is going to step into.”
“Americans believe that the private sector is always more efficient and cheaper than big government, and particularly when you go among Republicans, even after five beers, they still believe it. But I always say, "If it's really true, why would they need that 12 percent extra on a traditional government program? Explain to me why something that costs more saves me money as a taxpayer.".”
“The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.”
“Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another for there will always be others whose lives on the face of it appear better. However just remember and focus on the fact that your life could be much worse and be grateful it isn't. No matter what others or even you may briefly think you are lucky things aren't worse so be grateful.”
“If only we could touch the things of this world at their center, if we could only hear tiny leaves of birch struggling toward April, then we would know.”

Source : Sam Hamill (1995). “Destination zero: poems, 1970-1995”, White Pine Pr

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