"Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy. Leonard was a lifelong lover of the arts and humanities, a supporter of the sciences, generous with his talent and his time. And of course, Leonard was Spock. Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Trekâ€™s optimistic, inclusive vision of humanityâ€™s future.I loved Spock."

-- Barack Obama

#Art Quotes #Stars Quotes #Optimistic Quotes

“I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself donâ€™t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.”
“Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitude and expectations. If we feel that our environment could stand some improvement, we can bring about that change for the better by improving our attitude. The world plays no favorites. It's impersonal. It doesn't care who succeeds and who fails. Nor does it care if we change. Our attitude toward life doesn't affect the world and the people in it nearly as much as it affects us.”
“I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth.”
“He wasn't sure exactly which day, but what's noteworthy about that is that is also before Valerie Plame is first identified in the Robert Novak piece that ran on Monday, July 14.”
“The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do not waste your time with music that is trite or ignoble. Life is too short to spend it wandering in the barren Saharas of musical trash.”

Source : "Great Pianists on Piano Playing". Book by James Francis Cooke, p. 217, 1999.
“The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.”
“When I noticed how my own children were effortlessly able to use all this sophisticated technology, at first I thought, 'My children are prodigies!' But then I noticed all their friends were like them, so that was a bad theory.”
“Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.”

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