"I am the most un-French Frenchman you will ever meet."

-- Jean-Marie Messier

“One of the best things Iâ€™ve read about that inexplicably, but endlessly, fascinating group of people, the so-called Serious Collectors of 78s. Petrusich burrows into not just their personalities but the hunger that unites and drives their obsessions. She writes elegantly, and makes you think, and most important manages to hang onto her skepticism in the midst of her own collecting quest.”
“You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.”
“I don't believe in objectivity. I observe the observer's paradox every moment I'm filming. Your presence is changing everything; there's no mistaking it. And you have a responsibility.”
“Stepping to me? Yo, that's the wrong move. So what you on, hobbs, dope or dog food?”

Source : Song: Ain't No Half-Steppin'
“The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.”
“Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”

Source : Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.33
“In my opinion the separation of the c- and ac-stars is the most important advancement in stellar classification since the trials by Vogel and Secchi ... To neglect the c-properties in classifying stellar spectra, I think, is nearly the same thing as if a zoologist, who has detected the deciding differences between a whale and a fish, would continue classifying them together.”
“Stop thinking about the audience and what they may be thinking of your music. Just play the music.”

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