"My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed."

-- Chuck Grassley

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“I took the frets out of my bass after I was getting into jazz a lot and I wanted to have that upright sound.”

Source : "Modern Electric Bass, Jaco Pastorius". Book by Jaco Pastorius, 1985.
“the first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old.”

Source : Mary Lee Settle (1954). “The Love Eaters”
“You took the words right out of my mouth, it must have been while you were kissing me.”

Source : Song: You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth, Album: Bat Out of Hell, 1977
“We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences.”
“It's tourists in New York. Everything is geared towards that. It's so hard on Broadway now for them to get people in there. They have to compete with so many other entertainments, so they have to bring a star in which puts people there out of work.”
“You have to dream dreams to live dreams.”
“Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then a little syntax make a clearing in the silence. Art... is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar... We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother-tongue.”
“Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.”

Source : John Mason Brown (1950). “Still seeing things”

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