"It's like an act of murder-you play with intent to commit something."

-- Duke Ellington

#Music Quotes #Play Quotes #Murder Quotes

“My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write.”
“Uncertainty is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom.”
“For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book has been brought to bear against that book to stamp it out of the world, but it has a mightier hold on the world today than ever before. If that were man's book it would have been annihilated and forgotten hundreds of years ago...”
“If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.”

Source : Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.39, Diversion Books
“I've never seen myself as a manager. As a manager, you have to put all your time into the job, and that would be difficult for me.”
“If at first you don't succeed, C4”
“On first blush this looks to be about money, but it is about power. Is power going to go to the information monopolies, or will it go to developers and users?.”
“I take the typical words, or I pick a two-word, three-word pattern. One of the things I'm known for is I was one of the first rappers to end their bars rhyming multisyllabically.”

Source : Interview with Jon Caramanica, believermag.com. June 1, 2006.

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