"Dance tango and you are literally plastered up against somebody's body"

-- Janny Scott

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“Looking for enlightenment is like looking for a flashlight when all you need the flashlight for is to find the flashlight.”
“Somewhere under the stars God has a job for you to do and nobody else can do it.”
“I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.”
“Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out.”

Source : "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.
“How do I pray? I study a rose, I count the stars, I marvel at the beauty of creation and how perfectly ordered it is, at man, the most beautiful work of the Creator, his brain thirsting for knowledge, his heart for love, and his senses, all his senses alert or gratified.”

Source : Amin Maalouf (1998). “Samarkand”, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated
“The self must be a tense bow. It must struggle with opposites rather than harmonize them, rather than turn the tension over to the great instruments of last manhood the skilled bow unbenders and Jesuits of our days, the psychiatrists, who, in the same spirit and as part of the same conspiracy of modernity as the peace virtuosos, reduce conflict.”
“When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest. A society which gives unlimited freedom to the individual, more often than not attains a disconcerting sameness.”
“They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.”

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