"When I went to Chicago, I'll put it like this: I was looking for a dime and I found a quarter."

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Buddy Guy

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“Every generation needs regeneration”
“I have the disadvantage of not being sociable. Wall Street men are fond of company and sport. A man makes one hundred thousand dollars there and immediately buys a yacht, begins to race fast horses, and becomes a sport generally. My tastes lie in a different direction. When business hours are over I go home and spend the remainder of the day with my wife, my children, and books of my library. Every man has natural inclinations of his own. Mine are domestic. They are not calculated to make me particularly popular in Wall Street, and I cannot help that.”

Source : "The Life and Legend of Jay Gould". Book by Maury Klein, 1986.
“Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding”
“When I first came to New York, in the '70s, artists were certainly divided about the Andy Warhol persona, and about the work. I thought it was utterly cool - I thought the Factory was utterly glamorous - but there were a lot of artists I really admired and respected who were older that kind of dismissed it, couldn't get it, and felt that there was a lack of seriousness about it.”
“I used to follow trends and try to do exactly what I saw in the magazines, but I'm not a Victoria's Secret model who can wear anything.”
“The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.”
“We're not perfect. We're a work in progress. But man, America has gotten a lot of things right.”

Source : "What I've Learned: Representative Donna Edwards (D, Md.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 15, 2010.
“All I can say is that I'm getting married in the future. I've narrowed it down to that.”

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