"What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time."

-- Dave Brubeck

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“I've turned down a lot of stuff. I've read several scripts and said "That's not me, I'm not interested in doing that." It's got to be something that inspires me and captures my imagination. I want to be able to say "There's a challenge.".”
“O love, what strange and wonderful fits: one sole thing, one beauty alone, can give me life and deprive me of wits.”

Source : Gaspara Stampa, “Rime 28”
“I was in the oil business for a while--gas and oil, check the tires.”
“If we knew exactly what to expect throughout the Solar System, we would have no reason to explore it.”

Source : Poul Anderson (2008). “The Van Rijn Method”, p.54, Baen Publishing Enterprises
“She had had the pain; it had been like being boiled alive in scalding oil and not being able to die to get free of it”
“Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil. . . Hysterical optimism as a sin against knowledge.”
“For example, in Vitamin K, the clotting proteins get it first... and only after they're satisfied do you prevent calcification of the arteries, or prevent cancer, or prevent bone fractures. It's all insidious damage that you get that's a long term consequence. In fact, we call these the diseases of aging.”
“If you practice hard, you can win every battle.”

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