Vieux Quotes

#1. Saying something to your child and then realizing that you sound like one of your own parents: deja vieux, mamamorphosis, mnemomic, patterfamilias, vox pop, nagativism, parentriloquism.

Steven Pinker

#2. In old grimy streets, in isolated and decaying houses, sometimes far from the Vieux Carre, in little used and secluded cemeteries, there still sluggishly circulates the ebbing blood of the past, of a vigorous and vividly hued past.

Clarence John Laughlin

#3. We have oral traditions in Mali, and songs are passed down and around this way. I think in the US you can play all the time in your own room and never see another musician your whole life. We can't understand that in Mali.

Vieux Farka Toure

#4. We don't survive without plants and animals because we rely on them, we rely on plants to put oxygen into the atmosphere, we rely on ... fish and crops and cows to eat.

Naomi Oreskes

#5. There are always more choices than you think.

Catherine DeVrye

#6. Many people love my music. Many do not understand it. In general my music is more easily understood by younger people in Mali, and by people outside Africa.

Vieux Farka Toure

#7. Foreign universities have two aspects - content and brand. If we focus on the brand, we could lose out on the content. The idea is to focus on the content.

Pallam Raju

#8. My father thought that if I was to go into the army, at the least I would have a reliable paycheck at the end of each month with which to feed my family. Music is less assured. One could say more dangerous!

Vieux Farka Toure

#9. Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

Anna Deavere Smith

#10. Handcuffs weigh much more than gravestones.
(from "Gratitude")

Visar Zhiti

#11. It is the duty of every patriot to hate his country creatively.

Lawrence Durrell

#12. I was aware that I was acting atrociously but I couldn't stop myself. Rarely had I behaved in such a manner. But I guess when we're feeling lonely in life, we attack those who actually do love us. It's one of the things that characterizes human nature and can be summed up in one word: FLAWED.

Jonathan Ames

#13. Now, I've got the taste for steak," she changed the subject. "What do you have the taste for?" Straight up, he had the taste for cute, klutzy, classy pussy, eating her and listening to her moan.

Kristen Ashley

#14. We can all make the world a better place through the moment-to-moment decisions we make as we interact with people.

Morton Shaevitz

#15. My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the books.

Hilda Solis

#16. Mali is a very social society. We share everything. I think sharing our resources in music forces us to collaborate more, play with other people more, share ideas more.

Vieux Farka Toure

#17. Freedom is an inmost power. That is why society limits it.

Marie Vieux-Chauvet

#18. I love kids, so working with them wasn't a problem.

Toni Collette

#19. I've loved Michael Jackson, his music, his music videos.

Ashley Tisdale

#20. What's great is when you're working with somebody with whom you have a connection, it's exciting because there's a shorthand and you trust each other and you have a good time together on the set and so you can go a little farther than you might normally because you're with somebody that you trust.

Stanley Tucci

#21. The ivy of the old age begins at the feet that hurt. (Le lierre de la vieillesse - Commence aux pieds qui blessent.)

Charles De Leusse

#22. I feel that the internal worlds of women are not that well represented by society. It is not an immediate thing people think about - the imagination of women or women's philosophy.

Planningtorock