""Jazz" to begin with, is a really bad word... all the true musicians that really play jazz, jazz is the worst word for it. Jazz is a process. Jazz is a creative process. It's not so much a genre, but a way of expression."

-- Eldar Djangirov

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“It is the retention by twentieth-century, Atom-Age men of the Neolithic point of view that says: You stay in your village and I will stay in mine. If your sheep eat our grass we will kill you, or we may kill you anyhow to get all the grass for our own sheep. Anyone who tries to make us change our ways is a witch and we will kill him. Keep out of our village.”

Source : "The Story of Man: From the First Human to Primitive Culture and Beyond". Book by Carleton S. Coon, 1954.
“Girls can be so petty and jealous. I swear they're worse than guys sometimes. Except they're all quiet about it. They sugarcoat it or else they talk behind each other's backs. It's seriously twisted.”

Source : Melody Carlson (2012). “The Jerk Magnet”, p.134, Revell
“Saying that you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying that you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It's out of your control and it's awesome â€” and it's not a career path.”

Source : "Cameron Russell's Mission to Make Beauty About Brains, Not Looks" by Dan Lieberman, abcnews.go.com. March 28, 2013.
“I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos. A place where I'd felt instantly at home.”

Source : Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.155, Penguin
“If you must doubt something, doubt your limits.”

Source : Pritchett, Price (1990). “You2: a high-velocity formula for multiplying your personal effectiveness in quantum leaps”, Pritchett & Associates
“You're always going to sound like yourself, but you can make really strong attempts to keep some similarities, but move away from what you did before for popularity's sake.”
“Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.”
“I'm not a person for sitting on beaches. What would I do?”

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