"Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it."

-- Norman Granz

#Country Quotes #Europe Quotes #People Quotes

“You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.”

Source : Twitter post from May 30, 2012
“Sometimes ... the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape with a quantity of suggestion. A single incident, a mere anecdote - these form the spine of the short short.”
“BlueÂ hasÂ no dimensions, it is beyondÂ dimensions.”
“The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.”
“Champagne is the only drink that leaves a woman still beautiful after drinking it.”
“I had to start boxing because I missed working on something and learning and I guess there's a little more aggression in boxing. I couldn't really get that side of me out, but I used to be able to by hitting a volleyball. That's why I started boxing.”
“There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.”
“I was talking to my publisher in Britain and was told here we are - we are sixty million people and we reckon only four hundred thousand people in Britain really read.”

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