"I remember performing in Russia when I was twenty, and I stayed at this hotel with 3000 rooms. There were sailors knocking on my room door, wanting to barter stuffed animals with Marlboros that I had been instructed to bring!"

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Source : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. October 16, 2014.

Anne Akiko Meyers

#Animal Quotes #Russia Quotes #Doors Quotes

“Do Something Small But Useful Now.”
“Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs - and we do so through the power of prayer.”
“I used to try and take things in leaps and bounds. Now I've realized it's got to be step by step.”
“A God who makes no demands, is the functional equivalent of a God who does not exist.”
“I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.”
“It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.”

Source : 1965 Of trumpeter Bubber Miley.'The Most Essential Instrument', in Jazz Journal, Dec.
“Justin Halpern tosses lightning bolts of laughter out of his pocket like he is shooting dice in a back alley. In one sweep of a paragraph, he ranges from hysterical to disgusting to touching--and does it all seamlessly. Sh*t My Dad Says is a really, really funny book.”
“The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given him your love.”

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