"Beautiful, Glorious Scotland, has spoilt me for every other country."

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Source : Justin G. Turner, Linda Levitt Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln (1972). “Mary Todd Lincoln: her life and letters”, Random House Inc

Mary Todd Lincoln

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“- I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do! - Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow.”
“I played football with my whole body - My hands, my head, my face. I did it all.”
“I'm interested in music, not in my image. If someone plays something fantastic, that I could never have thought of, it makes me happy to know it exists.”
“Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears”

Source : Pauline Oliveros (1974). “Sonic meditations”
“There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things.”
“So you can't dance? Not at all? Not even one step? How can you say that you've taken any trouble to live when you won't even dance?”
“What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time.”
“Taking sartorial risks and not following other people is what makes you stand out.”

Source : "Five things I know about style: Zac Posen". Interview with Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2011.

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