"Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out."

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Source : "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.

Marian McPartland

#Boys Quotes #Looks Quotes #Records Quotes

“There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it.”
“To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan,- The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'T is folly to be wise.”

Source : 'Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College' (1747) l. 91
“Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”

Source : "On Education" (1867)
“Like, my house has a nice view, because, you know, I was on 'Friends.'”
“Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment,Â in the clarity of pure awakened mind.”
“Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at last with bugles.”
“The small perplexities of small minds eddy and boil about you. Confident from the experience that has led you out of these same dangers, you attack each problem as it appears, unafraid.”
“The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of”

Source : Orson Pratt (2015). “The Kingdom of God, part 1”, p.13, Latter-day Strength

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