"If you want to be a musician, study your craft. Study music."

-- Billy Eckstine

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“It can't be pretty without being ugly first.”
“The truth is, we usually only show our unhappiness to another woman. I suppose this is one of our problems. And yet it is also one of our strengths.”
“It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.”
“I am proud to have been capable of giving people hope again.”

Source : "Socialist Francois Hollande defeats Nicolas Sarkozy in French presidential election", www.foxnews.com. May 06, 2012.
“Recollect that to a woman who gets her living by her pen, 'time is money,' as it is to an artist. Therefore, encroaching on her time is lessening her income. And yet how often is this done (either heedlessly or selfishly) by persons professing to be her friends, and who are habitually in the practice of interrupting her in her writing hours ...”

Source : Eliza Leslie (2011). “Selections from Eliza Leslie”, p.274, U of Nebraska Press
“Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.”
“In my fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama, and the United States of America.”
“You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something.”

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