"I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music."

-- Sonny Rollins

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“When you're a sportswriter, you learn how to use your imagination and to flex your literary muscle, because it's the same game played over and over again. There's nothing unique or marvelous. It's not an earthquake, or a weird mass murder. It's just the same old game played over and over, and you have to bring out the personalities. You have to drag them kicking and screaming out into the light of day, or you're not a good sportswriter.”
“I feel like I am too old to eat jelly. But I am too young to eat prunes. I am between grapes.”
“The life of West, Nietzsche said, is based on Christianity. The values of the West are based on Christianity. Some of these values seem to have taken a life of their own, and this gives us the illusion that we can get rid of Christianity and keep the values. This, Nietzsche says, is an illusion...Remove the Christian foundation, and the values must go too.”

Source : Dinesh D'Souza (2008). “What's So Great About Christianity”, p.77, Regnery Publishing
“Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how to live: the free adaptation that sacrifices detail to meaning, the strict crib that sacrifices meaning to exactitude. The poet moves from life to language, the translator moves from language to life; both, like the immigrant, try to identify the invisible, what's between the lines, the mysterious implications.”

Source : Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.109, Emblem Editions
“All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.”

Source : "Reader's Digest" Magazine, June 1964.
“It's incredibly difficult to keep a healthy body image in this business.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.”
“There is some suffering that awaits us all.”

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