"Dave Frank is one of the few people that can REALLY play!"

-- Lennie Tristano

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“I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.”
“In the first place, it is obvious that not only is wealth concentrated in our times but an immense power and despotic economic dictatorship is consolidated in the hands of a few, who often are not owners but only the trustees and managing directors of invested funds which they administer according to their own arbitrary will and pleasure. This dictatorship is being most forcibly exercised by those who, since they hold the money and completely control it, control credit also and rule the lending of money.”
“Any one man, woman, or child can be what they want to be; but be the right thing.”
“The office of the Vice-President is a greater honor than I ever dreamed of attaining.”

Source : "Random Recollections of an Old Political Reporter". Book by William C. Hudson, 1911.
“One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen.”
“The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.”

Source : Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.), Alexander Calder (1974). “Alexander Calder: a retrospective exhibition. Work from 1925 to 1974”
“No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they think it.”
“Don't ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It's too short, and you're too special.”

Source : "Even Performers Like Me Get Bullied" by Ariana Grande, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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