"I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were"

-- Cab Calloway

#Thinking Quotes #Color Quotes #Voice Quotes

“When all actions are used for feedback, the consequence of making mistakes will be a corrective and appropriate response, because everything everybody does matters. ... The more selective you are in the feedback you accept, the more insane your reasoning will become as you will necessarily reject corrective feedback that would have led to better reasoning.”
“However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.”
“In general, I go to see the stuff that for me is, "Thank God for that actor, he's doing something that I never imagined; thank God for this filmmaker, because if this person didn't exist, this movie wouldn't exist." That's why I go to the movies. That, to me, is what's so exciting about this movie.”
“Dictatorships usually exist primarily because of the internal power distribution in the home country. The population and society are too weak to cause the dictatorship serious problems, wealth and power are concentrated in too few hands. Although dictatorships may benefit from or be somewhat weakened by international actions, their continuation is dependent primarily on internal factors.”

Source : Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.7, Albert Einstein Institution
“Video is moving online in a big way. It's proven to be a challenging market for some companies that start out as a pure Internet company such as Joost.”
“Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.”
“Music is the only thing in this world, with the exception of sneezing and looking at the sunset, that takes you to a place that's above the mundane. Everything else is just bullshit.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Falling in love with someone doesnâ€™t mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.”

Source : David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.62, Egmont UK

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