"I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories."

-- Nat King Cole

#Piano Quotes #Stories Quotes #Sitting Down Quotes

“Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.”
“Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.”
“Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.”

Source : Nathaniel Branden (1998). “A Woman's Self-Esteem: Struggles and Triumphs in the Search for Identity”, Jossey-Bass
“When you work, work. When you play, play. Don't mix the two.”
“The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger.”
“In my heart I know you didn't come here just for me, you came here because you believe in what this country can be. In the face of war, you believe there can be peace. In the face of despair, you believe there can be hope. In the face of a politics that's shut you out, that's told you to settle, that's divided us for too long, you believe we can be one people, reaching for what's possible, building that more perfect union.”
“Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent like the mist over the river where the morning sun fell upon it. Freedom! Not only freedom from a bond that irked, and a companionship which depressed her; freedom, not only from the death which had threatened, but freedom from the love that had degraded her; freedom from all spiritual ties, the freedom of a disembodied spirit, and with freedom, courage , and a valiant unconcern for whatever was to come.”
“I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.”

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