"I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland."

-- Eddie Van Halen

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“The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.”
“There's a real fantasy quotient to my work. Any play that I've written for myself to perform in basically begins with the idea, "Wouldn't it be fun to be, say, Jean Harlow in a pre-code movie?"”

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“Not all of us are as effective as we could be, should be, or need to be, but some of the [most important] issues are slowly starting to be taken up again within black communities [because of their contributions], when we're not obsessed with personal attacks against each other.”
“I do like expressing how I feel about things in my music.”

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“For the historian everything begins and ends with time, a mathematical, godlike time, a notion easily mocked, time external to men, 'exogenous,' as economists would say, pushing men, forcing them, and painting their own individual times the same color: it is, indeed, the imperious time of the world.”

Source : Fernand Braudel (1982). “On History”, p.48, University of Chicago Press
“John Colman Wood's The Names of Things is a thoughtful, patient, and ultimately rewarding book. It's about, among many other things, the connections human beings make, that in spite of everything, we will always make. To quote from the book, 'What he saw in the people was what the old anthropologists called communitas. It wasn't that the people sang and moved. It was their singing and moving together' Singing and moving together, Wood has found a way to express this profound and beautiful idea through fiction.”
“Development which has no regard for whom or what it harms is not development. It is the opposite of progress, damaging the Earth's capacity to support us and the rest of its living systems”

Source : "Is protecting the environment incompatible with social justice?" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2012.
“Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.”

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