"There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste."

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Source : "The Hollywood Reporter" Interview, 1974.

Sarah Vaughan

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“On matters of intonation and technicalities I am more than a martinet - I am a martinetissimo.”

Source : Leopold Stokowski's statement recalled in obituaries (September 13, 1977), as quoted in "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations" compiled by James B. Simpson, 1988.
“Without Greece, it is not possible to preserve the integrity of the European phenomenon.”
“The dancer will not belong to any nation but to all humanity.”
“In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.”
“I think of my life as a series of moments and I've found that the great moments often don't have too much to them. They're not huge, complicated events; they're just magical wee moments when somebody says 'I love you' or 'You're a really good at what you do' or simply 'You're a good person'.”
“I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.”
“Poor children live in a particularly dangerous world--an urban world of broken stair railings, of busy streets serving as playgrounds, of lead paint, rats and rat poisons, or a rural world where families do not enjoy the minimal levels of public health accepted as standard for nearly a century. Whether in city or country, this is a world where cavities go unfilled and ear infections threatening permanent deafness go untreated. It is world where even a small child learns to be ashamed of the way he or she lives.”

Source : Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
“Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a swallow's bill breaking the egg, and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of Socrates.”

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