"The trouble with most musicians today is that they are copycats.Â Of course you have to start out playing like someone else.Â You have a model, or a teacher, and you learn all that he can show you.Â But then you start playing for yourself.Â Show them that you're an individual.Â And I can count those who are doing that today on the fingers of one hand."

-- Lester Young

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“Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.”
“The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.”
“Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.”
“Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.”

Source : "Social Media Strategies For Holiday Retailers" by Ryan Holmes, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2011.
“Nice girls aren't always what they seem.”
“Iâ€™m a gay man in a womanâ€™s body.”
“Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.”
“Auroville (City of Dawn) is an 'experimental' township in Viluppuram district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India near Puducherry in South India. It was founded in 1968 by Mirra Richard (since her definitive settling in India called '[The] Mother') and designed by architect Roger Anger. Auroville is meant to be a universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realize human unity.”

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