"If you see me up there on the stand smiling, I'm lost!"

-- Earl Hines

#Lost Quotes #Ifs Quotes

“L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for me - less intense, less busy; because of time difference and location, it has a calming effect. At least it used to be all that.”
“Even if we remain flexible, we need ground rules.”

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“That is the conviction we must come to in our meditation, that the darkness cannot quench the light.”
“An Individual, whatever species it might be, is nothing in the Universe. A hundred, a thousand individuals are still nothing. The species are the only creatures of Nature, perpetual creatures, as old and as permanent as it. In order to judge it better, we no longer consider the species as a collection or as a series of similar individuals, but as a whole independent of number, independent of time, a whole always living, always the same, a whole which has been counted as one in the works of creation, and which, as a consequence, makes only a unity in Nature.”
“Succinct, thorough, and masterfully researched-Thomas Medvetz has written a subtle and timely history of these fixtures of public debate in the United States. In the realms of culture studies, policy, and policy formation, there is no book quite like Think Tanks in America. Plus which, no one has understood, interpreted, then used Pierre Bourdieu's ideas better-so well that Bourdieu himself would have been pleased.”
“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.”
“When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.”
“Beginners are many; finishers are few.”

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