“You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.”
Nina Simone (1933–2003) American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist
Source: If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans
“You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.”
Nina Simone (1933–2003) American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist
“As far as I'm concerned, it's the ony name I've ever had.”
Happy Rhodes (1965) American singer-songwriter
On her lifelong use of the name "Happy", in "The Happy Rhodes Interview" in Homeground #48 (Summer 1993) http://web.archive.org/web/20091023165015/http://geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/3450/homeground.html <br class="br">Context: The first time my brothers saw me, when I was a day or two old and still in the hospital, my brother Mark could not pronounce the name "Kimberley," and I was an especially happy baby, so he decided it would be easier to call me "Happy." From that moment on, my family members never used the name Kimberley. I was forced, however, to use my given name while attending school. As soon as I turned sixteen, my name was legally changed to Happy Tyler Rhodes. As far as I'm concerned, it's the ony name I've ever had. When people ask me if it's my real name, I always say "yes."
“As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Attributed to Einstein in Albert Einstein: A Documentary Biography by Carl Seeling (1956), p. 114 http://books.google.com/books?id=VCbPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22silent+vice%22#search_anchor. Einstein is said to have made this remark "when someone in his company grew angry about a mutual acquaintance's moral decline". <br class="br">Attributed in posthumous publications
“As far as I'm concerned, they can strike for a day, a month, until death.”
Tzachi Hanegbi (1957) Israeli politician
In reference to convicted Palestinian prisoners announcing a hunger strike. Hanegbi: Prisoners on hunger strike 'can starve to death' http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=464469 Haaretz, 14 August 2004
“Would you look at me I'm crazy
But I get the job done
Yeah, I'm crazy but I get the job done.”
Ben Folds (1966) American musician
"Philosophy", Ben Folds Five (1995).
Song lyrics, With Ben Folds Five
“The window can be fixed, Katerina. I'm far more concerned about him.”
Ally Carter (1974) American writer
Source: Perfect Scoundrels
“As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk”
Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer
Gene Simmons (1949) Israeli-born American rock bass guitarist, singer-songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, and actor
What I've Learned (July 2002)