"You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)"

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Oscar Levant

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“Any reasonable economist will tell you that it's nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state's job growth. A multitude of other factors intervene. However, one thing the numbers can show is that right-to-work laws have a negative effect on the wages of workers in that state.”
“If you are made for flight, intended for it, you had better find a pursuer, fast. Otherwise, all that fleeing is going nowhere.”

Source : "Titian Vs. Roadrunner" by Dan Chiasson, www.newyorker.com. March 29, 2010.
“I'm afraid Putin will kill me. I believe that he was the one who unleashed the war in Ukraine. I couldn't dislike him more.”
“I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.”
“The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.”
“Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.”
“That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.”
“Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.”

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