Blue Thumb: Steve Jobs

"Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."

--Steve Jobs, Stanford University Commencement Address

Blue Thumb: Al Green

"Look at you...the chains you had on. Now they're gold."--Al Green.

Blue Thumb: Diane Sawyer

"Wake up curious."

--Diane Sawyer (Oprah's "Master Class")

GBSTL'S FAVORITE VIDEO'S OF THE YEAR #3--Ryan Leslie, "Gibberish"
"Gibberish" is my favorite song by Ryan Leslie. I love the way it starts. This show was very inspiring. Ryan put his own glory into the atmosphere, not without sprinkling some wisdom dust onto the listeners. Call it a Blue Thumb...
"They tried to tell me I couldn't sell no records, man! They tried to tell me what I was doing was too crazy. You know what I told them? I said if you got a dream and you believe in your dream, anything is possible!"


Bowery Ballroom. June 2010.

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Blue Thumb- Kind of like a sore thumb, but when something sticks out like a blue thumb the connotation here will be a tad more pleasant. For this we turn to the quote that pretty much inspired my fashion style. That stuff in that pic, I wrote that too. What?!? Stay tuned.

"Q: What’s the inspiration for all the bright colors you use in your Party Rock fashion line?

Skyblu: Uh, animals.

Redfoo: Yeah, animals, you know, birds, we might do a fish line, we like the patterns of exotic fish. A lot of it is, what can you wear at a party that’s gonna inspire interaction. Or for instance, when a girl is coming up to us and saying, 'Oh, I love your glasses.' We get to say, 'Hey, hey, hey, look! Just because you’re flattering us with compliments, doesn’t mean you’re going to sleep with us tonight. Stop flattering us with the compliments.' And then she says, 'OMG, no I wasn’t! I didn’t do that to sleep with you!' And we say, 'Hey look! I am not a whore, but I like to do it.'"--Unreleased interview quotation from LMFAO. March 2009.