"What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun."

-- Sarah Vaughan

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“I've been asked if I think there will ever come a time when all people come together. I would like to think there will. All we can do is hope and dream and work toward that end. And that's what I've tried to do all my life.”
“Your life doesnâ€™t happen in any kind of order. Events donâ€™t have cause and effect relationships the way you wish they did. Itâ€™s all a series of fragments and repetitions and pattern formations. Language and water have this in common.”
“Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.”
“Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?”
“The trick to education is to teach people in such a way that they donâ€™t realize theyâ€™re learning until itâ€™s too late.”
“The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.”

Source : "Search for the Real: And Other Essays". Book by Hans Hofmann. "Search for the Real in the Visual Arts", p. 45, 1948.
“Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.”
“I'm not that conservative. I do feel - I guess I'm more of a Democrat at heart, although I've never affiliated myself with a particular party.”

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