"You always draw from your roots. I'm influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I go back to my early influences: Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Earth, Wind & Fire, Ohio Players, Average White Band. Those kind of artists are what I look to. When I hear that stuff on the radio, I turn it up!"

-- Donny Osmond

#Artist Quotes #Player Quotes #Roots Quotes

“There's plenty of room for finger-pointing for the debacle in Iraq. If it's a problem that the Iraqi military is broken at its core, then there's no point in sending more Humvees and Apaches.”
“Things wonâ€™t go perfect. Itâ€™s all about how you adapt from those things and learn from mistakes.”
“It sounded like a very loud vacuum cleaner behind us.”
“I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the publics trust.”
“I throw the ball as hard as ever, but it just takes longer to get to the plate.”
“It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.”

Source : Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.5, Bloomsbury Publishing
“I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had twins in a taxi. A woman in Ohio had just had her seventeenth child. A twelve-year-old girl in Mexico had given birth to a thirteen-pound boy. The lead article on the woman's page was about how to adjust the older child to the new baby. I finally found an account of an axe murder on page seventeen, and held my coffee cup up to my face to see if the steam might revive me.”

Source : Shirley Jackson (1966). “The Magic of Shirley Jackson”, p.697, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.”

Source : Susanna Moodie (2010). “Life in the Clearings versus the Bush”, p.356, New Canadian Library

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