"Man, having an ideal before him of that which he ought to be, and is not, and acting as though he possessed the character he ought to have, but has not, comes, by the very virtue of his aspiration, to possess the character he imagines."

-- William Batchelder Greene

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“I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.”
“Having a 9-to-5 workday in which work is left behind when one leaves the office is no longer the norm as employers expect employees to be available outside of work.”
“I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.”
“When you cut a half-a-trillion dollars from the defense budget, it affects almost every area in the defense budget.”
“People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.”

Source : "What Are You Going to Do With That?". www.chronicle.com. October 3, 2010.
“If you love language, it will love you back.”
“Those type of people [in New Orleans] keep me happy and just smiling, you know? I just go hang out and talk with them and they tell me all types of old stories, and sometimes I might even pull my horn out in the middle of the block, and they're playing on beer bottles and different things, and we just do a little second line type thing, just us, four or five people, who are just having fun. That makes me day to be able to do that and go hang out with the people in the (Treme) neighborhood, and to do some shows around town, you know?”
“The only way to succeed is to make people hate you.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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