"So, you play today! You don't worry about what's gone, 'cause that's already gone and you can't bring what's gone back. It doesn't happen that way. So, every day's a new day and just play it as it comes. And I turned out to be a singer that was not on dope."

-- Anita O'Day

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“I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird.”
“I will speak with a straight tongue.”
“The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.”
“When our party took over political power, the exploiting classes and reactionary forces went into action. The only rusty and antiquated tool that they use against us is preaching in the name of faith and religion against the progressive movement of our homeland... They ought to be uprooted as a cancerous tumor is from the body of a patient in a surgical operation.”

Source : "Taraki: 'A New World, A New Man, And A New Society'". Executive Intelligence Review Vol. 5, No. 30, www.larouchepub.com. September 12, 1978.
“New York is very career-orientated and it's hard to take time off here, but that is great for building a business.”
“An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.”
“Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.”

Source : "Curiosities of Literature, Poverty of the Learned". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1766 - 1848.
“Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 15, 2010

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