"I don't think I'll ever be president of anything."

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Source : Hoagy Carmichael, Stephen Longstreet (1999). “The Stardust Road & Sometimes I Wonder: The Autobiography of Hoagy Carmichael”

Hoagy Carmichael

#Thinking Quotes #President Quotes

“Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a combination of neurons A and B.”
“It seems to me that large numbers of people are now paying attention to poverty and that large numbers now understand that blaming the poor and the insecure for being poor and insecure is as unseemly as is schoolyard bullying. In that realization lies hope for a reinvigorated discourse around poverty and inequity in modern-day America.”
“I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on. I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up.”
“to be sure, marriage is all in all with the ladies; but with us gentlemen it's quite another thing!”
“I take pride in my sports knowledge. I take pride in everything I do. It's part of me.”

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“I know no better way to show true patriotism and love for one's country, than investing to create wealth and employment.”
“Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words. And then it is written to be shared.”
“Amelie said, â€œI wonâ€™t be your servant in Morganville. Nor should you be mine. Equals.â€ She offered her hand to him, and he looked down at it, clearly taken aback. But he took it. â€œNow defend what is ours, my partner.â€ He grinned â€¦ grinned! â€¦ and whirled to meet Myrnin in midleap as Myrnin attacked.”

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