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“The first music I bought when I was nine or 10 was pop music from the '50s and '60s, like The Everly Bros., Elvis, Del Shannon, The Flamingos, The Platters, whatever I could get my hands on. And then some musical things, like Camelot, Singing in the Rain and Hair.”
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“The best path between two points is upside-down, between, then inside-out and round again.”
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“I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem.”
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“Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals.”
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“Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.”
Source : Anthony Sampson (1962). “Anatomy of Britain”, London : Hodder and Stoughton
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“Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.”
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“Wonderland was all we had in common, after all; Wonderland was what was denied the two of us. I had denied him his; he had denied me mine.”
Source : Melanie Benjamin (2010). “Alice I Have Been: A Novel”, p.250, Delacorte Press
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“America cultivates best what Germany brought forth.”
