"I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn't even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous."

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Barry Manilow

#New York Quotes #Bridges Quotes #Brooklyn Quotes

“I sometimes use music as way of getting back to a certain time, dredging up stuff from the past and putting it down on canvas.”

Source : "Wild Horses, William Burroughs And White Cake With Danny Fox". Interview With Christiana Spens, thequietus.com. September 22, 2013.
“The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do.”
“A lot of very competent people sometimes make errors.”

Source : "Jim Clyburn: Susan Rice Attacks Are Racial Code" By Luke Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2012.
“Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars.”
“The maddening thing for someone with a Western scientific turn of mind is that itâ€™s not whatâ€™s in your pack that separates the quick from the dead. Itâ€™s not even whatâ€™s in your mind. Corny as it sounds, itâ€™s whatâ€™s in your heart.”

Source : Laurence Gonzales (2017). “Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company
“The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly like religion in the same way that they like lions, either dead or behind bars; they fear religion when it breaks loose and begins to challenge their consciences.”
“Biography lends to death a new terror.”
“There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.”

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