"I came up in Brooklyn singing doo-wop music from the time I was 13 to the time I was 20. That music served a purpose of keeping a lot of people out of trouble, and also it was a passport from one neighborhood to another."

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Source : "Folk singer Richie Havens dead at 72" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. April 23, 2013.

Richie Havens

#People Quotes #Singing Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.”
“In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.”
“Matte or satin sheen scuffs up very easily. So, unless you have it professionally done, definitely paint shelves or cabinets with something with a higher sheen.”
“We have the opportunity to change Denmark - that opportunity must be seized.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“According to the Tax Foundation, the average American worker works 127 days of the year just to pay his taxes. That means that government owns 36 percent of the average American's output-which is more than feudal serfs owed the robber barons. That 36 percent is more than the average American spends on food, clothing and housing. In other words, if it were not for taxes, the average American's living standard would at least double.”
“A standing army is like a standing member. It's an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure.”

Source : Constitutional Convention, 1787.
“The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California”
“Another thing that escapes me is HOW to give substance to the forms. One day they look solid and 'real' and they seem to hinge upon each other and splinter and creak, fall with a thud to the bottom of the canvas and drag across the surface, and the next day they are like dust, all lightweight and just stuck there.”

Source : John McEwen, Paula Rego (1992). “Paula Rego”

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