"It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive."

-- Terry Pratchett

#Sadness Quotes #Battle Quotes #Flags Quotes

“My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.”
“And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.”
“To get better you have to step out of your comfort zone. You can't do the same things you've always done & improve.”
“If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of humanity.”
“Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies.”
“Most people didnt have the bandwidth to download whole albums. And so it brought back this cherry picking idea that the audience would focus on certain songs and possibly be the impetus behind what eventually got on AM radio: the single or whatever.”
“I always felt that my work hadn't much to do with art; my admirations for other art had very little room to show themselves in my work because I hoped that if I concentrated enough the intensity of scrutiny alone would force life into the pictures. I ignored the fact that art, after all, derives from art. Now I realize that this is the case.”
“Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.”

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