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“Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom... In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals of freedom and independence through which, eventually, jazz was evolved, and the music is so free that many people say it is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.”
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“North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.”
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“The development of Africa will not happen without the effective participation of women. Our forefathers' image of women must be buried once for all.”
Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead Latin. For gossip and insult, you can't beat Yiddish.”
Source : Linda Barnes (2015). “Cold Case”, p.9, Open Road Media
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“I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.”
Source : Vasily Grossman (2011). “Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.20, Random House
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“Be mindful at all times of the following: the nature of the whole universe, the nature of the part that is me, the relation of the one to the other, the one so vast, the other so small.”
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“Taken as a whole, the story of Ruth is one of those signs. It was written to give us encouragement and hope that all the perplexing turns in our lives are going somewhere good. They do not lead off a cliff. In all the setbacks of our lives as believers, God is plotting for our joy.”
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“I knew I could compete with most people in high school. It didn't quite give me an attitude, but it made me think I didn't have to try hard sometimes.”