"The actual fund is called "THE JIMMY FUND" and THE REDSOX FOUNDATION IN BOSTON has gotten involved and people all over New England are very supportive of this effort. The Jimmy Fund is an official charity of the Boston Red Sox and my song "Down at Fenway Park" is often played at Fenway and if you buy the C.D. a portion of the proceeds go to the Jimmy Fund via the Red Sox Foundation."

-- Freddy Cannon

#Song Quotes #Boston Quotes #People Quotes

“So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.”
“Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs... I'd still be doing it if I could make good judgement calls. I'd still be doing it if I didn't blow up to the size of an aircraft hangar, because it was a great time.”
“I think the Russian government is right to be concerned with propaganda on teenagers who are at the age of struggling through sexual identity issue and we should help to channel these urges in productive behavior. Heterosexuality is Godâ€™s design. Policies that encourage young people to think this are good ideas.”
“Absolute dominion of a powerful people by a minority always produces national aggression.”

Source : "Generation of Vipers". Book by Philip Wylie, 1942.
“A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”
“Life is the best party I've ever been invited to.”
“Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off.”

Source : FaceBook post by John Banville from Nov 16, 2012
“There were two different expectations in this land of the future. On the one hand the the optimistic belief in an unending progress with millenarianistic overtones and on the other hand the doomsday expectation of the final battle of Armageddon. Both are perspectives are uniquely American and both are inter-related.”

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