"If you want to be the best, baby, you've got to work harder than anybody else."

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Sammy Davis, Jr.

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“'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.”
“I just want to say something. 655,000 Iraqi civilians are dead. Who are the terrorists?”
“There are, it seems, two muses: The Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say, 'It is yet more difficult than you thought.' It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.”
“Whatever you are trying to achieve in life, it is essential that you surround yourself with people who believe that what you seek and what you believe in are not only possible but also very probable.”

Source : Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.22, BookBaby
“The Literary and Artistic heritage of humanity should be used for partisan propaganda purposes.”
“How can anyone expect to be understood unless he presents his thoughts with complete honesty? This situation is unfair because it asks too much of the world. In effect, we say, ' I don't dare show you what I am because I don't trust you for a minute but please love me anyway because I so need you to. And, of course, if you don't love me anyway, you're a dirty dog, just as I suspected, so I was right in the first place.' Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.”

Source : Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books
“I do less-fanciful reality. I celebrate the fat, the ugly, the women who can't get guys. I'm not trying to entertain you; I'm trying to make you passionate.”
“I lived five years in Portugal and then spent winters in Nepal or India.”

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