"Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you."

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Source : "Words of Wisdom". Book edited by William Safire and Leonard Safir, p. 435, 1990.

Charlie Parker

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“Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires as overwhelmingly the better mode of understanding the world, and would doubtless scorn religion as sentimental wishful thinking. Would not that same uncluttered mind also see the attempts to reconcile science and religion by disparaging the reduction of the complex to the simple as attempts guided by muddle-headed sentiment and intellectually dishonest emotion?”
“I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be.”
“Every day, I walk with my dog - summer, winter (it gets -20 F in Saint Paul), rain or shine. The nicer the day, of course, the longer the walk.”
“My abject hatred of actors and the acting world. I went to college as an actor, and halfway through, I switched to playwriting and directing. Then I spent a couple years working in publishing, doing some freelance journalism for The Village Voice and Musician magazine. I thought my life was going to be as a writer, but then I realized I missed performing, so I got into comedy. It was a nice combination of things I was sort of good at. I was a pretty good writer and a decent actor, but I didn't really like acting, and I didn't have the discipline to be a writer.”

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“Look at history; all the interesting women were deeply flawed.”
“Something has gone wrong with Ronnie... He wasn't like that before. I don't know what went wrong with him.”
“The American people do not like privatization. They are afraid of the debt the president's willing to do. And they don't like benefit cuts. And everyone here should understand all 45 Senate Democrats are united. We are not going to let this happen.”
“The Situation's style is like super obnoxiously aggressive.”

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