"My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician"

-- Ethel Merman

#Father Quotes #Play Quotes #Piano Quotes

“True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.”
“Unless you're Mary Lou Retton, in the right place at the right time with the right personality, you're not going to be on a Wheaties box and have all these endorsements.”
“If (a particular researcher) won't stop when you ask nicely, when you picket in front of his house, or when you burn his car, maybe he'll stop when you hit him over the head with a two-by-four.”
“I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live and temper his mettle without such honour. There is deep in him a sense of the heroic quest; and our modern way of life, with its emphasis on security, its distrust of the unknown and its elevation of abstract collective values has repressed the heroic impulse to a degree that may produce the most dangerous consequences.”
“Plan to throw one (implementation) away; you will, anyhow.”
“If Abu Nidal is a terrorist, then so is George Washington.”
“Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.”
“Collaboration equals innovation.”

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