5th Symphony

"Whomever understands my music will be free from all the world's miseries."
- Beethoven

natural resource

"All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why."
- James Thurber [1894-1961]

Hitchens

life objective

"To be loved and respected by those who know you best."
- Robert Duvall [born 1931]

sticks

"I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth."
- Steve McQueen

assail

"Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."
- Mark Twain

bedroom

101

“Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.”

- Thomas Carlyle 

acting

"The difference between Yale actors and Juilliard actors is that Yale actors are really interesting but you don't understand them and Juilliard actors you understand them but you don't give a fuck."
- Juilliard alumnus Bradley Whitford

clean

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
- Leonardo da Vinci

strip away

“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.”
- Michelangelo

a place to stay in Washington

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maxim

“In the long run, we're all dead.”
- John Maynard Keynes

So you want to get a PhD

a place to stay in Berlin

Hotel Adlon

"go!"

bolt of lightening

Kate Moss

"Inspiration is for amateurs."
- Chuck Close

comfortable with that

"I taught in jail; people can get better."
- John Waters [born 1946]

marmalade

"Hitler was said to favor waking up at about 10 a.m., breakfasted on coffee, bread and marmalade shortly afterward, and received visitors including his doctor in the afternoon. The accounts show he apparently worked until late in the night and went to sleep as late as 4 a.m."

Read on.

"the right thing to do"

Julian Schnabel, Girl with no eyes, 2001

"I painted her with no eyes so you'd look at her chin."

reformer

"Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."
- David Lloyd George [1863-1945]

hustle

"Speed is the only modern sensation."
- Attributed to Aldous Huxley by Jeremy Clarkson

philosophy

"Don't paint what you see."
- Augustus Dunbier [1888-1977]

a place for drinks in London

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http://www.shochulounge.com/

"The only King with taste"

Anthony van Dyck, Charles I: King of England at the Hunt, 1635

... and the only British King to have his head cut off.

dictum

" ... success will always be achieved by making minuscule improvements on a grand scale."
- Robert Herjavec, Driven: How to Succeed in Business and Life, pg.289

condition necessary for success

"I live in a sort of perpetual dissatisfaction."
- Karl Lagerfeld

paradigmatic inflection

“We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.”
- Albert Einstein

behavior in context

"Mental illness is not a matter of taking a pill and being cured. This is why it is so important we recognize so early the symptoms. You have to go into therapy, you have to talk it out, you have to get rid of the guilt and shame for the actions you did in the past. You have to forgive others for not understanding what you were going through."
- Margaret Trudeau in The Globe and Mail

money

"You really learn who you are in deep success and deep failure."
- Jon Favreau [born 1966]