"I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio."

-- Nick Lowe

#Song Quotes #Direct Quotes

“So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.”
“Acting on even a twig of faith allows God to grow it.”
“Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there.”
“They're us!They've repopulated the world, and now they've achieved the same state of idiocy they were in before, ready to blow themselves up all over again. Great, isn't it? That's the human race!”
“Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee - and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do.”

Source : Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.224, Penguin
“Danger and anger are everywhere. Love is the rarity, the gem buried in the core of the mine, the outpost of God.”

Source : Tanith Lee (2005). “Metallic Love”, p.124, Spectra
“In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this is merely at the 'imaginary' level of the ego, which is no more than the tip of the iceberg of the human subject known to psychoanalysis . The ego is function or effect of a subject which is always dispersed, never identical with itself, strung out along the chains of the discourses which constitute it.”
“What about life, Ninotchka? Do Russians never think about life, of the moment in which we are living? It's the only moment we ever really have.”

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