“ I think you work out something. I wouldn’t call them ideas. I think ideas are what you want to get rid of. I don’t really like songs with ideas. They tend to become slogans. They tend to be on the right side of things: ecology or vegetarianism or antiwar. All these are wonderful ideas but I like to work on a song until those slogans, as wonderful as they are and as wholesome as the ideas they promote are, dissolve into deeper convictions of the heart.
Leonard Cohen
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“ There were two people in him, he told me: one who feels as he ought to feel and one who feels the opposite. From the one who feels the opposite I make my evil characters; from the one who feels as a man ought to feel I try to live my life. Only two people? I asked.
Dickens and Dostoevsky
“ Frankly, if people in Romania can download my books and enjoy them, more power to them. They weren’t going to pay me anyway.
- Tim O’Reilly
- Tim O’Reilly
“ I don’t think you’re really through…when you’re learning about something and dissecting it, I don’t think you’re really through until you don’t understand anything about it. If you study something and you find all this stuff about it, you just went skin deep, so if you keep going and going, you should be left with a fucking mess of unanswered questions. If you take any subject and keep asking, “Why,” without stopping, you’ll get to a point where there really isn’t any clear answers. It can be a bit painful and scary, so I think that’s a fun way to come at it.
Louis CK on Learning
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“ Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience; to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder upon it, to dwell upon it. — N. Scott Momaday
Do We Need New Traits to Live Within Limits?
“ Decades ago, when the Finnish school system was badly in need of reform, the goal of the program that Finland instituted, resulting in so much success today, was never excellence. It was equity.
What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success
“ Now that it is 70 years since Joyce’s death, the copyright on his work expires. Previously tightly controlled by his estate, performances of Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Finnegans Wake and his only play, Exiles , will no longer require permission or payment, although there is less clarity on unpublished and posthumous works, as well as letters. A James Joyce symposium at Trinity College Dublin in June will look at the whole area. In the meantime, expect a flood of adaptations of Joyce’s work.
The Irish Times
“ To move not like a train on its tracks but like fog through the city.
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“ I’ve learned that the smartest people in the room, the ones who know the most about a business, might not be the ones who see the compelling nature of disruptive change.
Would You Pay $50 For Another Season Of ‘Community’?
