"I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo."

-- Bessie Smith

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“I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.”
“The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. This wealth has been gained by rapid short-term exploitation of the environmental system, but it has blindly accumulated a debt to nature-a debt so large and so pervasive that in the next generation it may, if unpaid, wipe out most of the wealth it has gained us.”
“When a child is born the mother also is born again.”

Source : Gilbert Parker (1913). “The lane that had no turning and other associated tales concerning the people of Pontiac. Parables of a province”
“I don't know if you can articulate an instinct.”

Source : "My Brilliant Career: Kristen Wiig" by Rachel Rosenblit, www.elle.com. March 19, 2010.
“The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They always did...they always will. They will have the same effect here as elsewhere, if we do not, by the power of government, keep them in their proper spheres.”
“Always leave a sinking ship. There's no virtue in hanging on to losers. And stocks don't have feelings.”
“We all want to know what taxes we would pay under [Donald Trump] tax plan. That's a question.”
“The harder the life, the finer the person.”

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