General quotes
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All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
That's been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
I would say 'Flower' had a story. It is told through the environment.
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.
Understanding is a two-way street.
You don't have to live a lie. Living a lie will mess you up. It will send you into depression. It will warp your values.
I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.
Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely.
I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
It's so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.
'Teenage Wildlife' is just epic. It's, like, five or six minutes long, and it kind of crescendos and builds into this insane vocal of Bowie wailing. I think I would pay $5,000 dollars to see footage of that recording session.
I never feel lonely if I've got a book — they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they're part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life.
I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what.
I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
Let's have some new cliches.
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