Trapped famous quotes

Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.

People who have come from nothing and started their own business or opened up a whole new niche in a particular industry, they truly inspire me.

I think when I dropped The Eulogy is when it became more [about] feedback because that's when Pitchfork wanted to review it and things like that.

If one is okay with police having guns - whoever is designated as having authority - but panicked at the thought of their fellow man or themselves having guns, then that is someone who does not think like a free person. He places a magical aura around whoever is in charge and only thinks they can wield power. This will come up again in other areas, such as letting government make economic decisions but fearing individual people making those decisions themselves.

I don't like auditions. I feel like they're a very unnatural setting and it's a very unsettling experience. Because you can't help but walk in and feel like you're trying to prove yourself to people. And you should just walk in and be.

Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again.

White people set goals, rappers 'chase paper', and the Chinese are too busy doing both to talk about either one.

Most men talk too much. Much of my success has been due to keeping my mouth shut.

People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.