I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its … - Tom Verlaine

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There will be a change in worldview from materialism and failure to conscious evolution. And everyone's potential to participate!

Tom Verlaine

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.

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Style to me is incidental. The British are very adept at creating it for its own sake, but the best style is incidental. John Coltrane had a style but it was totally incidental to what he was.

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I told somebody in Europe I was 43. I never tell my true age. It's ridiculous that people ask. The press doesn't deserve anything but lies.

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I'm not a clown but I'm not an academic either.

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I don't think Marquee Moon was so good, y'know? Just another record. First records everybody likes a lot.

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With my records, it's just a matter of trying to create something fresh for myself in a very finite context, which is the pop song. I don't know anything about the people who buy my records, and what, if anything, they get out of them.

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Malcolm Muggeridge

Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand it particularly beautiful and moving. 'That is what I have wanted to say to you, my brothers. Before I died. ' So he concludes, giving one a vivid sense of the old man, pen in hand and bent over the paper, his forehead wrinkled into a look of puzzlement very characteristic of him, as though he were perpetually wondering how others could fail to see what was to him so clear - that the law of love explained all mysteries and invalidated all other laws.

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John Stuart Mill

All desirable things. . . are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.

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Barbara Marx Hubbard

There will be a change in worldview from materialism and failure to conscious evolution. And everyone's potential to participate!

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Chris Ofili

Sometimes, as I feel a door or an exit point in my work is closing, I'll try to create an opening so as not to stifle the creative process, which I see as a process that's never-ending.

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