Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.
I have a few friends that have inspired me since I was a young kid. When I watch old films or modern movies - particularly 'Gladiator,' 'New Jack City' and 'The Skin I Live In' - I'll also get ideas.
Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.
Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism.
But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.
Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory.
I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
The Conservative party, the modern Conservative party, is on the side of people who want to work hard and get on.
Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?
A good man is called a man by his works
Da man nicht tun kann, was man will, muss man das wollen, was man tun kann.
A hungry man is not a free man.
I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.
I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.
We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.
A wise man will not rebuke a fool.
It's not the beauty of a woman that blinds the man, the man blinds himself.
The fly has no pity for the thin man.
For a wise man a fool is a good advisor.
There is a pinch of the madman in every great man.
