"In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison."

-- Derek Bailey

#Thinking Quotes #Play Quotes #Absence Quotes

“Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.”
“I think the future takes care of itself.”

Source : "State pols on the verge of stardom". Politico Interview, www.politico.com. July 12, 2012.
“I think I'm a big romantic.”
“I've found in my life that the parts that you're right for are the parts that you get. It's really usually quite easy because you're kind of right.”
“I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.”
“Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.”
“The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.”
“Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge.”

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