"As a young child, I thought that all pianists played everything. I mean, I thought anything on piano - any piano music, all pianists played it."

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Source : "'Fresh Air' Remembers Hit Songwriter, Pianist And Producer Allen Toussaint". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 13, 2015.

Allen Toussaint

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“I may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer.”
“I think actors, at a certain point in their careers, decide they're either going to keep taking risks or take the exact same risk over and over again so that it's not a risk anymore. That's when I don't want to work with them. I think there are some actors who are just doing the exact same thing, and they will never shift from it.”

Source : Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. March 4, 1998.
“APD is primarily defined as a lack of empathy,' I said. I'd looked it up too, a few months ago. Empathy is what allows people to interpret emotion, the same way ears interpret sounds; without it you become emotionally deaf. 'It means I don't connect emotionally with other people. I wondered if he was going to pick that one.' 'How do you even know that?' she said. 'You're fifteen years old, for goodness' sake. You should be ... I don't know, chasing girls or playing video games.' 'You're telling a sociopath to chase girls?”
“To the Jews only, and not to the Gentiles, was a Saviour promised.”
“A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things. [Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.]”
“Embrace life and all that God gives you-but never let it contain you. This world is too small to contain you.”
“Capitalism designates an economic system significantly characterized by the predominance of " capital ." Capitalism and double entry bookkeeping are absolutely indissociable; their relationship to each other is that of form to content.”

Source : "Der moderne Kapitalismus". Book by Werner Sombart, 2006.
“One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist.”

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