"You can't sing about love unless you know about it."

-- Billy Eckstine

“I never looked at a title and said, I want that.”

Source : "THR's Women in Entertainment 2012: Power 100". www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 05, 2015.
“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”
“The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.”
“Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.”
“I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.”
“Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.”
“People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves. If we can't laugh at ourselves and the human condition, we're going to be mean.”

Source : "Broadway, Hollywood actress Eileen Brennan dies", www.sfgate.com. August 1, 2013.
“Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.”

Source : John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.225, Harvard University Press

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