"Everybody wants ta get inta da act!"

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Source : "Billboard" Magazine, (p. 126), April 23, 1949.

Jimmy Durante

“I am not bisexual. I am not gay. I have never had sex with men.”
“The beauty of a game of chess is usually assessed according to the sacrifices it contains.”
“Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.”

Source : ""David Biespiel's poetry wire: a scream of consciousness". therumpus.net. February 17, 2015.
“Rich people believe in themselves. They believe in their value and in their ability to deliver it. Poor people don't. That's why they need "guarantees."”
“We see, then, that the disappearance of the conscious personality, the predominance of the unconscious personality, the turning by means of suggestion and contagion of feelings and ideas in an identical direction, the tendency to immediately transform the suggested ideas into acts; these, we see, are the principal characteristics of the individual forming part of a crowd. He is no longer himself, but has become an automaton who has ceased to be guided by his will.”

Source : Gustave Le Bon (1960). “Psychologie des foules”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“There is nothing Holy about hatred.”
“The white people were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to.”

Source : Dee Brown (2012). “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West”, p.252, Open Road Media
“Life is a matter of passing the time enjoyably. There may be other things in life, but I've been too busy passing my time enjoyably to think very deeply about them.”

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