"You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives."

-- Sonny Rollins

#Hard Times Quotes #Play Quotes #United States Quotes

“The United Nations is nothing but a trap-door to the Red World's immense concentration camp. We pretty much control the U.N.”
“The conservative version of American exceptionalism has become a password of sorts for candidates who want to prove their credentials to a right-wing America.”
“There is no inevitable connection between Christianity and cynicism. Truth is not a salad, is it, that you must always dress it with vinegar?”

Source : William Morley Punshon (1873). “Lectures and Sermons”, p.20, Adam, Stevenson
“I read my books aloud before they were published.”
“Successful people form habits that feed their success, instead of habits that feed their failure.”

Source : Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.72, Greenleaf Book Group
“In winter I like sprawling novels, full of conflict and intrigue, and during the bleakest, coldest days of December I holed up with Nicola Griffith 's Hild, a book of love and sex and war and religious upheaval, and I recommend it even over the warmest pair of Sorels.”
“Man, having an ideal before him of that which he ought to be, and is not, and acting as though he possessed the character he ought to have, but has not, comes, by the very virtue of his aspiration, to possess the character he imagines.”
“Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.”

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