"Trumpet players are just belligerant, and cocky, and you know, just hard-headed."

-- Wynton Marsalis

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“I just like playing with makeup and clothes - so I really don't feel like there are rules, and if there are rules, then I think it's up to you to break them.”
“A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from brooding over being a dog.”
“I protest against deference to any man, whether John Stuart Mill, or Adam Smith, or Aristotle, being allowed to check inquiry. Our science has become far too much a stagnant one, in which opinions rather than experience and reason are appealed to.”

Source : William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“What I love most about yoga is that you can make it whatever you need it to be. For me, it's a time set aside to pay attention to the stress, concerns, and tension that may have infiltrated my system.”

Source : "Empire Actor Grace Gealey: Gratitude and Forgiveness". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.”
“Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight, moving and blue and alive and so much bigger than even the black beyond seems because the ocean hides what it contains.”
“I think it's just important to not judge people based on their physicality because it's really about personality and people's hearts and souls. That's what drew me to Audrey Hepburn who is kind of like my icon.”
“The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary and utilitarian attitude that demonstrates little empathy for peopleâ€™s actual well-being, that dismisses imagination and thought, branding passion for knowledge as irrelevant.”

Source : Azar Nafisi (2014). “The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books”, p.20, Penguin

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