"When my pop career was over, I was scratching my head, thinking, "God, how am I going to do something after I'm forty?" I was in my mid-thirties, thinking I was on the scrap heap."

-- Nick Lowe

#Thinking Quotes #Careers Quotes #Pops Quotes

“Regulation needs to catch up with innovation.”
“Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.”
“See, because I played behind the scenes so much I already knew what to expect. So I started getting myself ready. I was creating work for myself to do. People were telling me to take a rest and saying "damn, you already acting like you going on MTV or something." In my mind I was because I knew it was what I'd have to do in the near future.”
“Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.”
“You're young and you're bulletproof and invincible. But never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer.”
“You know, the market was down yesterday... my first thought when I heard-just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, Time to buy.”
“Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.”
“I think that our republic was created in a way that is meant to be as inclusive as possible. Obviously that means something a little different now than it was back then, but the principles are still the same and there's plenty there for all of us to rally around. Even when I was sworn in, I swore in on the U.S. and Virginia constitutions, not on any religious document, to send a point that as a proud Muslim American, I'm very proud to be able to be elected to defend the Virginia and U.S. constitutions, because that is our charge as legislators and we shouldn't forget that.”

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