"A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow."

-- Steve Lacy

#Athlete Quotes #Artist Quotes #Dancer Quotes

“I tell you the truth: if I lived in a country where there was no day appointed for elections, I would become a revolutionary, if not a terrorist. And that is because I love liberty too much; without liberty a man is not a man. He has no dignity.”
“I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.”

Source : John Betjeman (1994). “Letters: 1951 to 1984”
“Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity.”

Source : George Bancroft (1866). “Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln: Delivered, at the Request of Both Houses of the Congress of America, Before Them, in the House of Representatives at Washington, on the 12th of February, 1866”, p.42
“Life is beautiful but people are crazy.”
“Russell Wilson has got a tremendous competitive mindset and it stems from the confidence that he feels based on the preparation that he puts in.”
“The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all”
“I think that in the sexual act, as delightful as it can be, the very physical part of it is, yes, a hammering away. So it has a certain brutality.”
“I do partake in a couple of drinks now and again, but I've never drank to feel alive.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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