"I had been to SÃ£o Paulo the year before and became pretty well acquainted with the music of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, I had already started playing that music, and the audience response had been pretty good because those songs are so melodic. I knew it would be something that would be appealing; I wasn't thinking that it would make the top of the pop charts or anything like that."

-- Charlie Byrd

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“To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.”
“I'm actually totally the prude of my family.”

Source : "Why HBO's Sue Naegle Didn't Lose Sleep Over 'Homeland's' Big Wins". Interview with Stacey Wilson Hunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 05, 2012.
“Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which was killing him; to improve the safety and the sanitary conditions of the workshop; to free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.”

Source : Samuel Gompers, William Green (1921). “The American Federationist”
“I believe anything that anyone tells me. I have found that that is the best way to go through life. When I was younger, I used to be more skeptical, but then I found out that most things were true. So I believe tabloids. I believe legends. I believe anything anyone tells me.”
“The workload is so heavy you forget about thinking, it just kind of happens.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“China has an almost infinite need for energy, and frankly, the world would be better off if much of that need goes in the direction of wind power.”

Source : "Easy Essays".
“Donâ€™t be friends with jerks.”
“They lived long that have lived well.”

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