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“Don t play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast.”
Source : Victoria J. Theodore, Scott Joplin, Stanford University. Dept. of Music (1990). “The ragtime solo piano works of Scott Joplin: an analysis and performing edition of three pieces”
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“Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims.”
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“Hark ye, you Cocklyn and la Bouche, I find by strengthening you, I have put a rod into your hands to whip myself, but I am still able to deal with you both; but since we met in love, let us part in love, for I find that three of a trade can never agree.”
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“2015 was really the hardest and the best year of my life. I learned a lot. I went through a lot of personal heartbreak, loss, and turmoil. I had to find my way out of sinking under the weight of it and it was the hardest thing I had to do.”
Source : Source: www.teenvogue.com
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“To expect truth to come from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know.”
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“Corporations must answer questions about why they should be in the blogosphere. Small Businesses need to answer questions about why they shouldn't.”
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“Once you learn how to make people laugh, then you get to choose exactly how you want to make them laugh.”
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“Accept the difficulty of what you cannot yet change. But do not accept the impossibility of ever changing it.”
Source : "You Can Live Forever: Is Immortality Plausible? Or Is It Quack Science?". Interview with Andrew Romano, www.newsweek.com. July 24, 2013.