"I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage."

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Source : "Ben Vereen’s Remarkable Journey Of Love And Loss". Interview with Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2012.

Ben Vereen

“I donâ€™t intend to use beer as a crutch and drink until I pass out. So advice, keep an eye on that so you can get in there and get yourself drunk sex before it turns unpretty and drunk sex ends with me puking and / or passing out during the act.”
“We have global interests, potential threats from elsewhere, North Korea, Iran, Taiwan Straits and the like. We must be prepared for any future threat. That is why it is important that this be a transition year, 2006.”
“You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 16, 2014
“Money is how we keep the score in motor racing nowadays.”
“But then, I am always being overwhelmed. I require it to sustain life.”

Source : Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”
“And these great natural rights may be reduced to three principal or primary articles: the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty; and the right of private property; because as there is no other known method of compulsion, or of abridging man's natural free will, but by an infringement or diminution of one or other of these important rights, the preservation of these, inviolate, may justly be said to include the preservation of our civil immunities in their largest and most extensive sense.”

Source : Sir William BLACKSTONE, Samuel Warren (1856). “Blackstone's Commentaries systematically abridged and adapted to the existing state of the law and constitution, with great additions. By Samuel Warren”, p.101
“By 1833 the largest publisher in America, Harper and Company, boasted one horse-powered printing press and seven hand presses while the American Bible Society owned 16 new state-of-the-art, steam-driven presses and 20 hand presses.”
“Life is brought down to the basics: if you are warm, regular, healthy, not thirsty or hungry, then you are not on a mountain... Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop.”

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