I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think thats healthy when youre learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape. – Andrew Dost
After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer. – James Tobin
You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something. – George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara: A Discussion in Three Long Acts {Act III, An
This also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency, either in the records or in the mind of any of the individuals, that there was any contact had or even contemplated with him. – Richard M. Helms
We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity. – Benjamin Disraeli
