We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.
ALAIN DE BOTTONFriends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.
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To dig one’s own spade into one’s own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?
BEVERLEY NICHOLS -
I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.
BIZ STONE -
I live in hip-hop. I don’t find it to be offensive.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
I don’t mind talking about the game. I don’t mind talking about what we go through as players, because I want people to get a deeper look inside instead of looking at stats all the time or looking at numbers or just watching the game.
KEVIN DURANT -
If we compare the present state of the New Testament text with that of any other ancient writing, we must… declare it to be marvelously correct. Such has been the care with which the New Testament has been copied – a care which has doubtless grown out of true reverence for its holy words…. The New Testament is unrivaled among ancient writings in the purity of its test as actually transmitted and kept in use.
B. B. WARFIELD -
The poetic way of looking at it is which project is going to choose me as a director.
ABDELLATIF KECHICHE -
I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
AL PACINO -
I’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.
TOM BRADY -
What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other… but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
BARBRA STREISAND -
I don’t make records for pleasure. I did when I was a younger artist, but I don’t today. I record so that I can feed people what they need, what they feel. Hopefully, I record so that I can help someone overcome a bad time.
MARVIN GAYE -
We’re gonna keep on doin’ what we’re doin’, and we’re gonna get it by all means. That’s just what “ruthless” means to me. Everybody’s got their own definition, but I’m ruthless with this music.
ACE HOOD -
Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS -
There are umpires, and there are those who hold the title.
AL BARLICK -
With every loss, you gain a new perspective.
SOPHIA JOAN -
We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
KEITH RICHARDS