It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and all of these games that we’d play, and suddenly it would turn just violent and there would be shootings at 12 in the afternoon on any given day.
JAY-ZI’m somewhat of a hoarder. I keep everything.
More Gary Clark, Jr. Quotes
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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD -
All we have to do is get out and vote, while it’s still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON -
You can’t copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you’re working without any real feeling.
BILLIE HOLIDAY -
Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. … It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
ALAN LIGHTMAN -
The biggest (and hardest) lesson I’ve learned in life is that the external world is just a reflection of the world within.
TONY HSIEH -
You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.
JOAN OF ARC -
Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
C. V. RAMAN -
Science has authority not because of white coats or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out your evidence, and reference the studies that support your case.
BEN GOLDACRE -
A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory.
PABLO NERUDA -
The best thing to do is to get out in front of an audience as much as you can, and learn from the experience.
BILL HADER -
Environment is very important to me. Sometimes I have to perform during the day for festivals, and my music does not work in the daytime. It is nighttime music.
THE WEEKND -
Faith supplies staying power. Anyone can keep going when the going is good, but some extra ingredient is needed to keep you fighting when it seems that everything is against you.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE -
Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN -
It’s hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
BARBARA KRUGER -
I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you’ve always lived.)
BRET EASTON ELLIS