"It's a shame that jazz is now being turned into dried fruit. It's becoming quantized, diced and defined. It's becoming an idiom. To me if it's anything, jazz is a verb ? it's more like a process than it is a thing."

-- Pat Metheny

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“Wisdom is not having illusions, especially anything in your own mind that elevates you above others.”
“I want a society in which we don't throw things and people away with quite the abandon we do, especially people. This is why the idea of disruptive technologies is quite dangerous, because you ought to be asking ourselves, what exactly are we disrupting?”
“I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.”

Source : "God Dies". Essay by Frances Farmer, 1931.
“I own a lot of shoes; I am not sure how many.”

Source : "Kristin Cavallari: Life After The Hills". The Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. May 23, 2011.
“[People of faith must] reassure them [atheists] that we share with them the core values of America, that our faith is not inconsistent with their freedom and our mission is not one of intolerance, but one of love.... I stand before you today as a witness to the goodness of God. For me, like you and like my running mate Al Gore, faith provided a foundation, order and purpose in my life.”
“Every harlot was a virgin once.”
“...This is the first time I have met someone who seeks out people and who sees beyond...We never look beyond our assumptions and, what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves. We don't recognize each other because other people have become our permanent mirrors. If we actually realized this, if we were to become aware of the fact that we are alone in the wilderness, we would go crazy...As for me, I implore fate to give me the chance to see beyond myself and truly meet someone.”

Source : "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, books.google.ru. September, 2 2013.
“There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!”

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