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Stars - My Favourite Book

Because I never knew a home
Until I found your hands
And when I’m weathered
You come to me, you’re my best friend

And that is why we’ll always make it

How I know your face, all the ways you move
You come in, I can read you, you’re my favourite book
All the things you say, the way you shift your eyes
I never knew there was someone, to make me come alive

I could probably get over my fear of flying if air travel still operated like this.

I could probably get over my fear of flying if air travel still operated like this.

She & Him - Volume Two

She & Him - Volume Two

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Matt Costa - Acting Like a Fool

I’ve collected all my things and put them all in boxes
I’ll pay off all my dues, I don’t care what the cost is
For acting like, for acting like a fool
From a different city I was looking at the changes
Everything just looks the same, and it’s me that feels the strangest

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There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (Smiths Cover) - Death Cab for Cutie

This version by Joseph Arthur is also wonderful.

(via fred-wilson)

As a creator, part of what I seek is recognition, immortality. I don’t work for Apple or Google (I’ve been offered jobs & buyouts) because I want the fame myself. It’s my shot at immortality. My designs are my children. So it stinks when I feel like Steve might get the fame for my innovation. I lose my children, as it were. But your children aren’t really yours. They have lives of their own. So when your designs do change the world, you have to accept it. You have to say, ‘Ok, this was such a good idea, other people took it and ran with it. I win.’
Wil Shipley, creator of Delicious Library (which has been heavily borrowed from for the iBooks app for the iPad), on changing the world with design
When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
Alan Kay (via marco)
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Blind Pilot - 3 Rounds and a Sound

Now I see you, ‘til kingdom come
You’re the one I want
To see me for all the stupid shit I’ve done

Very smart.

All I ask of you is one thing: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism — it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard, and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.
Conan O’Brien, during his last Tonight Show.




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