"If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come."

-- Bobby Short

#Play Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it.”
“The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed in measuring the earth. Euclid is perpetually in their hands. Aristotle and Theophrastus are the objects of their admiration; and they express an uncommon reverence for the works of Galen. Their errors are derived from the abuse of the arts and sciences of the infidels, and they corrupt the simplicity of the gospel by the refinements of human reason.”
“I worship scones and danishes. If I never had another meal, I wouldn't care as long as I could eat pastries and jelly doughnuts.”
“Everybody's somebody's everything”

Source : FaceBook post by Chance The Rapper from Jul 31, 2013
“Why are millions spent on the war each day, while not a penny is available for ... artists or the poor? Why do people have to starve when mountians of food are rotting away in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?”
“They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society.”
“Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is not a name of a characteristic of assertions, so 'freedom' is not a name for a characteristic of actions, but the name of a dimension in which actions are assessed.”

Source : "Philosophical Papers". Book by J. L. Austin, edited by James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock, p. 180, 1979.

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