"If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music."

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Maurice Ravel

#War Quotes #Musical Quotes #Might Quotes

“I had just put the casket in the hearse and was watching it drive away, when a beautiful blond woman comes up and embraces me. I said to her, 'You have a drink on you? You have a car?' She said, 'Daddy, it's me â€” Tatum!' I was just trying to be funny with a strange Swedish woman, and it's my daughter. It's so sick.”
“Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.”
“It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it.”
“Chocolate thickens the saliva, which isn't good news if you've gotta recite Shakespeare or sing Iron Man. Having said that, you're not supposed to drink tea either but I still do before gigs. It's not very rock and roll, but it's like a magic potion to me.”
“Your daughter is your child for life.”
“Take action. Every story you've ever connected with, every leader you've ever admired, every puny little thing that you've ever accomplished is the result of taking action. You have a choice. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life.”

Source : Bradley Whitford's Commencement Address at University of Wisconsin-Madison in in Madison, Wisconsin, news.wisc.edu. May 15, 2004.
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”
“Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.”

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