"Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American."

-- Malcolm X

#America Quotes #History Quotes #Sitting Quotes

“You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.”
“I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.”
“Good photos have come when I least controlled the situation.”
“It was our worst-ever day, the worst result in my history, ever. Even as a player I don't think I ever lost 6-1.”
“Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.”
“I've always been a lover of classical music ever since I was an early teenager I suppose. I remember the very first piece of classical music that grabbed me was I bought an LP of Daniel Barenboim performing Mozart's piano concertos and I would have been about 14 or 15 at the time and I remember I played it over and over again.”
“I think I'm being friendly with someone and I'll sit in their lap. They think I'm flirting with them.”
“Perhaps I am just a hopeless rationalist, but isn't fascination as comforting as solace? Isn't nature immeasurably more interesting for its complexities and its lack of conformity to our hopes? Isn't curiosity as wondrously and fundamentally human as compassion?”

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