"My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel."

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Source : "The singer who disappeared" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. January 12, 2005.

Madeleine Peyroux

#Father Quotes #Ears Quotes #Ravel Quotes

“I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing. So I kept talking, and they kept laughing.”
“Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.”

Source : "How I Survived My Divorce From Rod Stewart" by Alana Stewart, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2012.
“Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are very precious. They are like water, which gives life and growth and refreshment, but because it has always been abundant, we treat it cheaply. We waste it; we pollute it, and doctor it. Later we blame the quality of the water because we have misused it.”
“I usually wouldn't be this close to you without a tetnus shot.”
“Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.”
“I think there is no mantra for success. One just has to be positive and keep doing good work. One must keep moving forward and not think much.”
“Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.”
“a normal human being ... does not exist.”

Source : Karen Horney (2013). “The Neurotic Personality Of Our Time”, p.27, Routledge

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