"A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Fats Domino

“Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.”
“Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.”
“For the record: I wear makeup. All. The. Time. But I do it in a way that looks natural.”

Source : "Interview with Entourage's Emmanuelle Chriqui". Interview with Suzanne Zuckerman, www.womenshealthmag.com. June 23, 2009.
“Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.”
“When I die, I want to be buried in a long long-sleeve black Ralph Lauren dress and brown chunky boots. I want my hair styled like his models, long hair that flows. I also want natural makeup with a light pink lip.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think there's a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There's something transcendent about it. It's sort of the way that music is more than the sum of its parts. You have all these elements that make up the terroir that wine can communicate.”
“Beethoven and Wagner for many years wrung our hearts. But now we are sated with them and derive much greater pleasure from ideally combining the noise of streetcars, internal-combustion engines, automobiles, and bust crowds than from rehearsing, for example, the 'Eroica' or the 'Pastorale'...away! les ust be gone, since we shall not much longer succeed in restraining a desire to create a new musical realism by a generous distribution of sonorous blows and slaps, leaping numbly over violins, pianofortes, contrabasses, and groaning organs, Away!”
“The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer and Milton, the Greek tragedian and Shakespeare, Chaucer and Cervantes and Swift, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and James and Conrad. Time does not make their voices fainter, on the contrary, it reinforces our sense of their truth-telling capacity.”

Source : Wendy Lesser (2014). “Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books”, p.98, Macmillan

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