"Commercial to the core, Elvis was the kind of singer dear to the heart of the music business. For him to sing a song was to sell asong. His G clef was a dollar sign."

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Source : Albert Goldman (1981). “Elvis”, McGraw-Hill

Albert Goldman

#Song Quotes #Heart Quotes #Dollars Quotes

“If somebody else is making the rules for you, no matter how good the payoff is for you, you're being conned.”
“All sciences are connected; they lend each other material aid as parts of one great whole, each doing its own work, not for itself alone, but for the other parts; as the eye guides the body and the foot sustains it and leads it from place to place.”

Source : Roger Bacon, John Henry Bridges (2010). “The Opus Majus of Roger Bacon”, p.88, Cambridge University Press
“... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos.”
“I'm an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.”

Source : Henry Hill (2007). “Gangsters and Goodfellas: The Mob, Witness Protection, and Life on the Run”, p.9, M. Evans
“Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.”
“I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.”

Source : "Irvin Kershner obituary" by Ronald Bergan, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2010.
“Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.”
“Whatever your income, always live below your means.”

Source : Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko (1996). “The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy”, p.161, Government Institutes

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