"My grammar school graduating class in 1941 had a little party for 13 or 14 year-old kids. [Trumpeter] King Kolax's band played for the party and Gene Ammons was playing tenor saxophone with the band. And that's when I said, "That's it!" Just like that, tunnelvision ever since."

-- Johnny Griffin

#Kings Quotes #Party Quotes #Kids Quotes

“It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.”
“Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries.”
“I have a huge Lego collection - I have a really big Lego collection. We're talking pretty darn large. I also have a huge collection of original stainless steel Thomas the Tank Engine train toys. Beautiful little trains; they're my favorite thing in the world.”
“You know God gives me that inner strength that super strength to get through things.”
“I basically go to the gym three times a week to do weight training for one or two hours.”
“It doesn't matter what you choose, what matters is the energy with which you choose it.”
“In the 21st century, culture is power.”
“No foreign policy can be sustained in the United States of America without the informed consent of the American people. And informed means just that, successes and failure, a realistic assessment of where we are and what the president plans to do about it.”

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