"I went through eight years of classical piano lessons without being able to read notes. I only have to hear a melody to be able to play it. It used to freak my piano teacher out when he finally noticed that notes don't make any sense to me and that I played by ear."

-- Liam Howlett

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“I think you can do something bad, and it doesn't make you a bad person. We are not defined by any one choice. We are the sum of our experiences, and we can make a bad choice and turn around and do better.”

Source : "Grey's Anatomy's' Jessica Capshaw: 'Arizona Does Not Forgive Callie". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 17, 2013.
“Long-haul trucking. Just roaming the country, alone, with audiobooks and podcasts, sleeping in the back of the cab, showering at gas stations at 4 a.m., minimal human contact. That's living the dream.”

Source : "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.
“I disappear from the public eye and get rediscovered quite often.”
“I chose life over death for myself and my friends... I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.”
“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.”
“I've sworn off agnosticism, which I now call cowardly atheism. I've come to the position that in the complete absence of any supporting data whatsover for the persistence of the individual in some spiritual form, it is necessary to operate under the provisional conclusion that there is no afterlife and then be ready to amend that if I find out otherwise.”
“Success isn't about how much money you make. It's about the difference you make in people's lives.”

Source : Michelle Obama's Speech speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.npr.org. September 4, 2012.
“America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shinning sea!”

Source : "America the Beautiful" (song) (1893)

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