Don't ever play with someone's feelings, you could win the game but you could lose that person forever.
Interpretation
Playing with someone's emotions may offer short-term gains, but it risks long-term loss of meaningful connections.
This quote warns against the emotional manipulation of others. While one might achieve a temporary advantage or enjoyment by toying with someone's feelings, this behavior can lead to permanent damage to the relationship, potentially losing someone who mattered greatly in the process.
In practice
This quote can be used in a conversation about emotional honesty in relationships.
Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.
It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies.
I think we all change each other's paths. I don't know which law idea that is in physics, but I don't think any of us can live without affecting one another.
Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.
We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.
Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed.
When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
You get older, and people start passing away. And so if you're lucky - my mom died very young, for instance, and I have friends who died very young - but the point being that, I think if you're awake, you know you're going to pass on. And that the real treasure in life is the long term - relationships that you really value.
The worst times were the years I was alone. The image to the public entering the courtroom was eight men, of a certain size, and then this little woman sitting to the side. That was not a good image for the public to see.
I asked her to look at me and after a few moments - (pause) - after a few moments she did, but the eyes just slits, because of the glare I bent over her to get them in the shadow and they opened. (Pause. Low) Let me in.
People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.
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