Louise J. Kaplan Quotes

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

Louise J. Kaplan

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I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.

Jim Morrison

BelieveLongUnknownI BelieveOrder

Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.

Jerry Cantrell

MusicBeautifulUglyKindSomething

I've really hung in there with my BlackBerry. The main reason I like it better than an iPhone is that I can type better. I saw Rachel Zoe using a white one and I was jealous. The risk, of course, is that it could look like a Lady BIC. I've just learned to own it though.

Andy Cohen

JealousBetterLadyLookI CanRisk

I did some research on cryonics and cryogenics, but I kept it to a minimum because I didn't want the science part of the novel to overshadow the fiction. Being medically accurate wasn't my main goal.

John Corey Whaley

ScienceResearchGoalWantFiction

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

John Maynard Keynes

MindNothingOwnOurExceptStates

San Francisco has always been a haven for misfits and weirdos. I'm both of those, which is why I came here.

Michael Franti

WhyAlwaysSan FranciscoHereBeen

When I was on TV in the '80s, I wasn't thinking, 'There's a 10-year-old kid watching this and in 15 years, he's gonna be doing stuff that was influenced by me.' I was trying to get my five minutes together. So now that those people are comedians and they're influenced by me - it's bizarre.

Steven Wright

TogetherPeopleMeThinkingDoing

You know, at that age you want to show everyone else how wild you are. It's a combination of being bored, looking for a cheap thrill and being really stupid - a dangerous combination.

Mike Judge

AgeStupidLookingYouDangerous

Symbols are important. It depends on how they're used.

Chirlane McCray

ImportantSymbolsUsedHowDepends

Life is an unending stream of extenuating circumstances.

Clayton M. Christensen

LifeCircumstancesStreamUnending

One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.

Branford Marsalis

GreatListeningLovedMusiciansBand

The trick to techno, as a connoisseur, is that you got to do two things: keep your hands down and your mouth shut.

Winston Marshall

HandsYouMouthDownTwoThings

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