"How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles, and just haven't got the guts."

-- Dizzy Gillespie

#Jazz Quotes #Miles Quotes #Stage Quotes

“Having seen TED from a distance, I always thought if ever there was a place for someone like me, the outcasts, people who maintained who they are despite being told what they were, it was TED.”
“We need above all to know about changes; no one wants or needs to be reminded 16 hours a day that his shoes are on.”
“There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.”

Source : Gene Wolfe (1994). “Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.404, Macmillan
“A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.”

Source : "The wit and wisdom of Boris", www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2007.
“As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away, rather than confront, the racial inequality that exists in our society.”

Source : "Michigan's ban on affirmative action upheld by Supreme Court" By Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. April 23, 2014.
“If you would have God hear you when you pray, you must hear him when he speaks.”
“Everybody needs a chance to find love.”
“Thereâ€™s a strange quality in stop-motion photography, like in King Kong, that adds to the fantasy. If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.”

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