"I don't think America has ever had a center the way London is the center of England or Dublin is the center of Ireland."

-- Richard Russo

#Thinking Quotes #America Quotes #London Quotes

“I'm the kind of cat that can finish three songs in a day. Two or three songs in a day. If my voice is up to it and I feel up to it, I can finish two or three songs in a day.”

Source : Source: www.parlemag.com
“Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling everything.”
“I've done a lot of tough stories over the years. I've done a lot of profiles over the years that have not always been, shall we say, helpful for the person who is being written about.”
“The most important thing in business is honesty, integrity, hard work familynever forgetting where we came from,”

Source : "Fictional character: Frank Lucas". "American Gangster", 2007.
“I don't want to say the wrong thing, which I always do. I think I do better when I sing.”
“Helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas.”
“We are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence.”
“Well I mean I just sit at the piano and maybe figure out some harmony or melody or both. Sometimes you can hear it in your head. Sometimes you don't always have to write it down. You just write it down so you can remember it.”

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