"My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed."

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Source : Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

Rita Coolidge

#Song Quotes #Grandmother Quotes #My Grandmother Quotes

“After I read 'The Hunger Games,' I went out and got 'Catching Fire' the next day.”
“The condition of women affords in all countries the best criterion by which to judge the character of men.”
“In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper.”
“You'll never win anything with kids”
“I've seen many men die right in front of me - so many in fact that I've become almost hardened to it. Having seen the worst that human beings can do to each other, the results of torture, mutilation and seeing someone blown to pieces by a bomb, you develop a kind of shell. But you had to. You had to. Otherwise we would never have won.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Socrates used to call the opinions of the many by the name of Lamiae, bugbears to frighten children.”
“A single agency responsible for systemic risk would be accountable in a way that no regulator was in the run-up to the 2008 crisis. With access to all necessary information to monitor the markets, this regulator would have a better chance of identifying and limiting the impact of future speculative bubbles.”
“There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he would not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to pursue his own opinion.”

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