"When you're in love, the whole world is Jewish."

-- Beverly Sills

“New Orleans is of such key importance to American music because historical factors combined to make it the strongest center of African musical practice in the United States, and, cliches aside, that practice really did travel up the Mississippi and did spread overland.”
“I grew up in a Jewish family, and we have raised our children in a Jewish tradition. Religion gives a framework for moral enquiry in young minds and points us to questions beyond the material.”
“Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.”

Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.
“Find your voice, shout it from the rooftops, and keep doing it until the people that are looking for you find you.”

Source : "At XOXO, a countercultur E kickstarts itself" by Ryan Tate, www.wired.com. September 18, 2012.
“Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay gap between top executives and shop floor laborers; between 'Master of the Universe' financiers and pretty much everyone else.”
“Philanthropy, like Red Cross voluntarism, is realizing the enhancing influence of cultural diversity. Inviting the full participation of all the community's resources leads to win-win situations.”
“If you work on anything long enough hopefully you’ll get better and I feel like we’re just growing.”

Source : "Chosen One: Sharon Van Etten". Interview with Mark Carry, fracturedair.com. February 11, 2015.
“But what goes on in my life outside of the game should be my business.”

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