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Nothing in the world is the way it ought to be. It's harsh and cruel. But that's why there's us. Champions. It doesn't matter where we come from, what we've done or suffered, or even if we make a difference. We live as though the world was what it should be, to show it what it can be.

Joss Whedon by way of Angel

All the Public Enemy albums, I knew what records they were sampling but was like, 'How'd they construct it like this?!'.

DJ Premier

For me, sampling is a high art. Most people don't see it that way, but it's a beautiful thing. I wouldn't know anything about music if it wasn't for samples. There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them.

JPEGMAFIA

A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Napolean Bonaparte

If you don’t know your formative narrative, you will adopt someone else’s story where the heroes looks like them and the villains look like you.

Dr HJ Lee

In the span of a couple of weeks, Vladimir Putin managed to revitalize NATO, unify a splintered West, turn Ukraine’s little-known president into a global hero, wreck Russia’s economy, and solidify his legacy as a murderous war criminal.

Brian Klaas, The Atlantic