"Only become a musician if there is absolutely no other way you can make a living."

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Kirke Mechem

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“That the machine of Heaven is not a hard and impervious body full of various real spheres, as up to now has been believed by most people. It will be proved that it extends everywhere, most fluid and simple, and nowhere presents obstacles as was formerly held, the circuits of the Planets being wholly free and without the labour and whirling round of any real spheres at all, being divinely governed under a given law.”

Source : "The Scientific Renaissance 1450-1630". Book by Marie Boas Hall, p. 117, April 2, 2013.
“There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading and writing and corresponding. We think this life is nearly ideal.”
“The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.”
“In much postmodern theatre ... the line between theatre and non-theatre is deliberately erased.”
“As a kid, I felt really weird.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not.”
“If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.”

Source : Sam Rayburn (1978). “"Speak, Mister Speaker"”
“The only phrase I've ever disliked is, 'Why, we've always done it that way.' I always tell young people, 'Go ahead and do it. You can always apologize later.'”

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