You know the difference between me and you? I bleed red and you bleed green. I look at you these days, String, you know what I see? I see a man without a country. Not hard enough for this right here and maybe, just maybe, not smart enough for them out there.
— Avon Barksdale in The Wire
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
— T. E. Lawrence
If we believe we’re smarter or more talented, sometimes we sort of are, say the scientists. Not that we’re going to be out there doing a floor routine anytime soon, but when we tell ourselves we’re good at something, we gain confidence, and then we may get better at doing that very thing, winning friends and influencing people, or so goes the reasoning.
And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both; but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved….I sum up by saying that since his being loved depends upon his subjects, while his being feared depends upon himself, [one] should build on what is his own, and not on what rests with others.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery—isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you’ll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is.
I think that it’s important to like stuff, cause we spend a lot of time thinking about things we don’t like. Whether its the world ending, or inequality, or sex and the city. We often just accept the things that we like, and complain a lot about the things that we don’t like. But if we could, like, intensely dwell on the really great things in life the way we intensely dwell on the negative things in life; I think that would be fantastic.
With great jawnz comes great responsibility. Do not let jawnz fall into the wrong hands
— Internet Fame, 2012
My goal is to transcend fashion to the point where it’s clothes again
— Internet Fame, 2012
Q: You look fit – just not big like a quarterback.
A: I’m pretty good at the sex. And pretty good at picture taking. That’s about it. Garance is pretty happy. And the hotel-room neighbours are pretty pissed. You can write that; that’s totally fine with me.
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Q : If you weren’t doing this, what would you be doing?
A : Every rapper says if I was not doing this, I would be in jail. And basically, I’m a rapper, only I’m a photographer. So if I wasn’t doing this, I would definitely be in jail.
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Scott Schuman, the Sartorialist via ‘Globe and Mail 2009’
Original link has disappeared so you can link back to this.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/28/the-sartorialist-im-prett_n_246187.html
A grail only reaches self-actualization when it’s wearer can pull it off.
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Internet Fame, 2012
Professor at UOJ

