"In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between whatâ€™s regular and whatâ€™s wild. That has always appealed to me."

-- Robert Pinsky

#Play Quotes #Jazz Quotes

“Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.”
“It's very hard to get the dynamics where two people can stimulate each other and be happy.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I got the acting bug back because I felt like all of a sudden maybe after all these years, maybe I might have something to offer again. I walked away from it after 'Signs' because I just felt I was a bit stale and it wasn't ringing my bells, so I focused on directing, writing and producing.”
“The true patriot scrutinizes the actions of his own government with unceasing vigilance. And when his government violates the morality and rightness associated with principles of individual freedom and private property, he immediately rises in opposition to his government.”

Source : Jacob G. Hornberger (1997). “The tyranny of gun control”
“Women are more verbal than men. That's why when you see an elderly couple together, it's always the man who has the hearing aid.”
“Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.”
“We risk great peril if we kill off this spirit of adventure, for we cannot predict how and in what seemingly unrelated fields it will manifest itself. A nation that loses its forward thrust is in danger, and one of the most effective ways to retain that thrust is to keep exploring possibilities. The sense of exploration is intimately bound up with human resolve, and for a nation to believe that it is still committed to a forward motion is to ensure its continuance.”
“In the next century or two, we humans will have planet-finder telescopes that span our solar system with mirrors strewn from here to Jupiter, giving us enormous angular resolution so we can do the kind of science that a self-respecting advanced civilization ought to be doing. We should someday be imaging the continents on other planets. We can't do that yet, but aliens can do that already, so they know we are here.”

Source : "Hunting for the Great Galactic Internet". Interview with Slate, www.slate.com. April 8, 2012.

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