"... one thing people always ask me is 'How do you play outside?' ... I have no idea how to teach that, but when I was discussing this with our bass player Jesse Murphy, he said 'tell them to go cliff diving'... In other words, when you're jamming, you have to take risks if you want to find new sounds..."

-- John Scofield

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“We don't really have the ability to enforce the law with respect to illegal work in this country in a way that's truly effective...We haven't been able to require every employer to enter a system in which they check the work status of their employees and determine whether they're legal, and without that, we don't really have the ability to enforce the law with respect to illegal work in this country in a way that's truly effective. And that would be the single greatest additional weapon we could use if we're serious about tackling this problem.”

Source : Transcript: Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff on 'FOX News Sunday', www.foxnews.com. July 1, 2007.
“With confidence you believe you can overcome your weaknesses. With arrogance you don't even see your weaknesses.”
“Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.”

Source : George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.452
“Growing up as a mixed-race kid myself, when you are in the middle of it and you're young...you don't think about it consciously. It's your reality.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I believe America is safest and strongest when we are leading the world and we are leading strong alliances.”
“We [musicians] are comfortable in front of the camera doing music videos, and it's almost a form of acting when we're doing music videos. We're acting out our own thoughts and what we've written down on paper.”
“Photographers have already photographed everything too many times, except cheese.”
“A God you understood would be less than yourself.”

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