"I go to the favelas in Brazil. It's the same in the South Side of Chicago. It's the same, or just more violent. We're trying to get them to stop selling dope. You see kids with AK-47s, and nine-year-olds with nine millimeters. You know, they don't play. They make us look like nuns."

-- Quincy Jones

#Kids Quotes #Dope Quotes #Years Quotes

“"Simple" is a tricky word, it can mean a lot of things. To us, it just means clear. That doesn't always mean total reduction, or minimalism - sometimes, to make things clearer, you have to add a step.”
“in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction.”
“I see a lot of people who have amazing stories but have been told that their work, their lives, and their stories and not the stuff of literature. Or they're first-generation college student, first-generation American, and their family just doesn't understand the art world. They have a lot of guilt. "We came all the way from [wherever] so you could do this?" Those people may not be showing the moxie, but that's because they don't even know what's possible. So I want to jump in and say, "Actually, your story is amazing, and I believe in you.".”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I am a Death Dealer, sworn to destroy those known as the Lycans. Our war has waged for centuries, unseen by human eyes.”
“Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.”
“Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little boring unless you've got something else going for you... And the orchestra really kept you going. They'd laugh at all your jokes, even if they'd been hearing them for the last 30 years.”
“People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.”

Source : Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist: Essays”, p.7, Harper Collins
“At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would be like calling number theory the study of strings of digits which terminate.”

Source : Terence Tao (2012). “Topics in Random Matrix Theory”, p.2, American Mathematical Soc.

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