"I resolved to play my trumpet like a sax."

-- Roy Eldridge

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“I consider myself a logical person and, you know, a lot of people try to categorize me in one way or another. You know, there are some of the things that I say that probably would be considered very much non-conservative. But I don't think really conservative or liberal; I think: What makes sense? What's going to help the American people? What's going to give them what they need? Not only in health care but in terms of jobs, in terms of education, in terms of a whole host of issues.”
“The price for Jarrod's freedom is to be my imprisonment.”

Source : Marianne Curley (2012). “Old Magic”, p.158, A&C Black
“It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.”
“Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.”
“Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadnâ€™t. I felt the biting pang of every unfulfillment.”
“Playing Chelsea is as tough a test as you'll get in Europe these days.”
“I don't think that's changed at all. I think there are a thousand stocks out there that could make you rich, totally independent of what you do for a living.”
“Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!”

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