"I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!"

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Source : William Gaddis (1975). “J R”, Random House

William Gaddis

#Mean Quotes #Law Quotes #Stealing Quotes

“Dance music has pushed its way into the mainstream. Which is good for me.”

Source : "One to watch: Jessie Ware" by Morwenna Ferrier, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.
“I get a lot of calls from families and people who have served time and they say, 'Thank you, Sheriff. I hate the tents.' That's music to my ears.”
“In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants.”
“I don't like needing anyone for anything.”
“I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.”
“Memorial Day, the reason for it, fewer and fewer people know. It's just the first real weekend of summer, three-day weekend and so forth, barbecues, what have you. That's why I think education is important. I'm really glad my dad drilled into me these things that he had lived through and it helped me relate to him better and understand the things he thought were important and why he was raising me the way he was.”
“Buy my album because... it's the kind of music you can be friends with. And it's the only way that *pause* aliens won't come to Earth and destroy us. I am sure of this.”
“My wife likes history and documentaries, but I'm not so keen on them. I generally go and do some work if there's one of those on.”

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