"My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family."

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Simon van der Meer

#Mother Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Father Quotes

“Comfort is beauty muted by heroin. Sadness is beauty drained by lack of it.”

Source : Luke Davies (2011). “Candy”, p.213, Random House
“There are a lot of ethical firms on Wall Street.”

Source : "Online Extra: Q&A with CSFB's John Mack". Interview with Emily Thornton, www.bloomberg.com. September 23, 2002.
“A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.”
“Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I think all music needs. Especially jazz music, since improvising is one of the cornerstones of what jazz is. And when you smooth it out, you take all the drama out of it.”

Source : "Once-stricken saxman: Music 'gave me my life'". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. August 15, 2008.
“I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.”
“Since I was a law student, I have been against the death penalty. It does not deter. It is severely discriminatory against minorities, especially since they're given no competent legal counsel defense in many cases. It's a system that has to be perfect. You cannot execute one innocent person. No system is perfect. And to top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics it, it costs more to pursue a capital case toward execution than it does to have full life imprisonment without parole”
“I had a group of Hispanic Americans come into my office in 1976 who worked in a Denver packing plant. They had just been fired by their employer who turned around and hired illegal aliens for a lot less money. That had a big impact on me.”
“The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.”

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