"There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're doing, rather than playing music. If you're playing a money game, why not get into banking?"

-- Artie Shaw

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“Ask yourself: Does the job touch my heart and feed my soul? You will never be what you were meant to be if you aren't having fun.”
“As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself.”
“You know, back in the '70s â€” I remember the '70s, we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.”
“As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.”
“Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them...as you make the effort.”
“If you can't come clean and tell investors how and why you failed, that raises a red flag. They need to see that you learned from it and came back stronger.”
“America, I am a strong believer that how we treat each other matters.”

Source : Emanuel Cleaver DNC speech, www.politico.com. September 05, 2012.
“Maybe i would become a mermaid... i would live in the swirling blue-green currents, doing exotic underwater dances for the fish, kissed by sea anemones, caressed by seaweed shawls. I would have a doliphin friend. He would have merry eyes and thick flesh of a god. My fingernails would be tiny shells and my skin would be like jade with light shining through it I would never have to come back up”

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