"The bottom line of any country is: what did we contribute to the world? We contributed Louis Armstrong."

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Tony Bennett

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“I never go to the cinema. I can't stand sitting in the dark with strangers -- all of us obliged to share the same emotional experiences -- it's too intimate. I like to be emotional in private.”

Source : Peter Greenaway (1999). “Eight and a half women”, Dis Voir Editions
“I wouldn't consider myself a songwriter at all. Maybe I piece together a certain little thing here and there, but songwriters are people who do this with sheet music.”

Source : "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.
“I'm living what I always wanted to do.”
“The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.”

Source : Henry L. Stimson (2016). “On Active Services In Peace And War”, p.434, Read Books Ltd
“Perhaps I'll get used to this bizarre place called Hollywood, but I doubt it,”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Critics of Consequentialism have often assumed that hedonism (or preference-satisfaction) must be the theory of the good, that the deontic principle must be maximizing, and that the principle should be applied to individual acts. Indeed, this version is often called "classical utilitarianism" and attributed to Bentham and sometimes even to Mill. Rather than a "classical" view it is a recent construction foisted on to the tradition.”
“If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.”
“I don't leave my neighborhood. I don't go anywhere. There are four blocks I live in and there are two coffee shops, one at each end of the block... so I don't do much driving... Some people would say they never see me because I don't go anywhere. I stay in the blue state of Nashville, in my bubble.”

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