"You need to believe in something that's bigger than yourself. I think that's what everybody wants to believe in that."

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Source : "At 60, 'Challenges Are Opportunities' For John Zorn". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 3, 2013.

John Zorn

#Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.”
“Justice is blind until she gets the person that blinded her. Then it's payback time.”

Source : "The Daily Show with John Stewart", October 02, 2007.
“I've always been me. The last three weeks of my career, I've cut some of the best promos I've ever cut, and I do consider myself to be a promo guy.”

Source : Source: www.pmakid.com
“One Chief Astronaut used to make a point of phoning the front desk at the clinic where applicants are sent for medical testing, to find out which ones treated the staff well-and which ones stood out in a bad way. The nurses and clinic staff have seen a whole lot of astronauts over the years, and they know what the wrong stuff looks like. A person with a superiority complex might unwittingly, right there in the waiting room, quash his or her chances of ever going to space.”
“Why does it [government] always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?”
“I feel like the seventies was a decade where things ran out, and where other things set in. There was just a lurking graininess and seediness about the decade, a slight grogginess of the hangover from the sixties.”
“Anything can be art. Art is the relations between relations, not the relations between objects.”
“When we sell a kilo of bean coffee in Uganda, we get one dollar per kilo. The same kilo, when it is processed [and sold in Britain], goes for $10, $11 or even more a kilo. That is the same situation [price disparity] that goes for all raw materials.”

Source : "President Museveni Highlights Ugandan Achievements for Americans" by Jim Fisher, news.findlaw.com. September 23, 2005.

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