"The two biggest hits (by Machito)... were about that enduring Cuban song topic-food: 'Sopa de pichn' [pigeon soup] and 'Paella'. If you think that all songs about food are double entendres for sex... Well, maybe all songs about food can be double entendres, but in many periods of Cuban history, for many people, food has been harder to get, and the subject of more fantasies, than sex."

-- Ned Sublette

#Song Quotes #Sex Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“A heavenly light more brilliant than all others sheds its radiance everywhere, and he who was begotten before the morning star and all the stars of heaven, Christ, mighty and immortal, shines upon all creatures more brightly than the sun.”
“I just don't feel like I'm old. I still feel like I've got a lot of years, a lot to give in this game, and I'm able to do it because I love to work.”
“Our listening creates a sanctuary for the homeless parts within another person.”
“Hard work should be rewarded by good food.”

Source : Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.377, Penguin
“Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going.”

Source : Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.53, Random House
“Jesus beckons me to follow him to that place of weakness where I risk the vulnerability of a child so that I might know how strong my Father is and how much he loves me. But truth be told, I would rather be an adult. I'd rather be in a place where I can still pull things together if God doesn't show up, where I risk no ultimate humiliation, where I don't have to take the shallow breaths of desperation. And as a result, my experience of my heavenly Father is simply impoverished.”
“It is hard to write even the smallest piece of code correctly.”
“I tried to control the narrative.”

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