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I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

P. J. Harvey

Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.

Marshall McLuhan

The persons born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Pope? How many divisions has he got?

Josef Stalin

My parents are the coolest of the cool on every single level, and it's because they have a deep appreciation for every moment of their lives.

Rashida Jones

There are two levers for moving men -- interest and fear.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: a human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him, a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.

Pearl Buck

In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.

Elena Kagan

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

Jane Austen

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Jean Cocteau

I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.

Barbara Bush

Some say it will bring war to the heavens, but its purpose is to deter war, in the heavens and on earth.

Ronald Reagan