"There is something so arbitrary about prizes."

-- Steve Toltz

#Arbitrary Quotes #Prize Quotes

“One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are. Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.”

Source : Source: coogradio.com
“In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science.”
“Please, all you MCs out there, all you fans out there, don't think Big gonna make a record dissing 2Pac or the West Coast because it's not going down like that. I cant even see me wasting my time or my talent to disrespect another black man.”
“I'd fallen asleep thinking I was much too tired to go on working and if I went on working, I'd lose it. I'd get a better hold of it in the morning; feel stronger. But I looked and looked at it and it seemed to me there was nothing to do.”
“I absolutely love talking to all of my fans.”

Source : "Nice to Meet You: Hart of Dixie Star and Country-Rap Artist, Claudia Lee!". Interview with Haley Longman, www.clevver.com. July 2, 2012.
“Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.”
“It's not crazy to want to have certain songs be developed harmonically and still want to make noise with the guitar. And you can have both.”
“The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light--so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.”

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