"At Carnegie Hall the Preservation Hall Jazz Band showed how easily it could hop from era to era. It could work like a rhythm-and-blues horn section or a tightly arranged little big band if need be, but it could also switch back into the polyphonic glories of vintage New Orleans jazz, in which nearly every instrument seems to improvise around the tune at the same time."

-- Jon Pareles

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“Nature is so exact, it hurts exactly as much as it is worth, so in a way one relishes the pain, I think. If it didn't matter, it wouldn't matter.”

Source : "Julian Barnes: The sense of another ending". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2013.
“We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.”
“To appreciate the success you have to have had the failures. You have to accept that it is a journey and its not just tomorrow or the next day or next year.”
“I think Rowdy Gaines actually said something like: Katie Ledecky doesn't swim like a man. She swims like Katie Ledecky.And that was a good comment. I swim the way I swim. And I take it as a compliment when somebody says I swim like a man, because, as you said, my stroke is kind of taken after what some of the male freestylers have done. But I'm just trying to go as fast as I can go.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“For me, it always comes back to the blogger, the author, the designer, the developer. You build software for that core individual person, and then smart organisations adopt it and dumb organisations die.”

Source : Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. February 1, 2005.
“A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.”
“Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.”
“Sometimes isnâ€™t it better to have some time and space to ourselves? We will have new perception of things.”

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