quotes about License

“As I got older, it turned into hardcore punk. I started getting into more aggressive music.”

Source : "Dead Child". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.

“I would give my life a thousand times that God might not be offended.”

“A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.”

“Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay gap between top executives and shop floor laborers; between 'Master of the Universe' financiers and pretty much everyone else.”

“If you create good work, people should be interested.”

“People get hurt all the time in the game of football, it's part of what we do.”

“Examine yourself to see whether you have within you a strong sense of your own self importance, or negatively, whether you have failed to realize that you are nothing. This feeling of self-importance is deeply hidden, but it controls the whole of our life. Its first demand is that everything should be as we wish it, and as soon as this is not so we complain to God and are annoyed with people.”

“She tilted her head, considering the sensation. "It is strange." He gave a hiss of laughter at the words. "It only gets stranger, darling. But we shall try for something more.”

“We read to learn and to grow, to laugh, to be motivated, and to understand things we've never been exposed to. We read for strength to help us when we feel broken, discouraged or afraid. We read to find hope. We read because we're not just made up of skin and bones, and a deep need for chocolate, but we're also made up of words, words which describe our thoughts and what's hidden in our hearts.”

“I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed from a boy with his eyes squeezed shut to a man with his eyes wide open so that the sunlight might reach my heart despite all that darkness.”

Source : Ryan Adams (2009). “Infinity Blues”, p.13, Akashic Books