"I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey."

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Source : Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

Rita Coolidge

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“When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, the - Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don't think that's the case anymore, although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe.”

Source : "Roddy Doyle's Man Of Ireland At The End Of The Road". "Morning Edition" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. May 20, 2010.
“A lot happens by accident in poetry.”
“I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible; to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance, to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.”

Source : Dawna Markova (1996). “The Open Mind: Exploring the 6 Patterns of Natural Intelligence”, p.187, Conari Press
“Slavery is the offspring of darkness.”
“Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.”
“I see myself as an athlete and just try to market myself as a feminine athlete.”
“America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!”

Source : The Melting-Pot act 1 (1908). This passage popularized the term melting pot in the sense of an amalgamation of peoples (the jstor database shows that an earlier usage with this meaning occurs in the American Journal of Sociology, July 1906, and a reference to public education as a "melting-pot" for immigrants appears in the Los Angeles Times, 28 June 1891). See Baudouin 1; Jimmy Carter 3; Crevecoeur 1; Ellison 2; Hayward 1; Jesse Jackson 1
“We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards.”

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