"I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me."

-- Mose Allison

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“If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain the focus on long-term price stability as monetary policy's greatest contribution to general economic prosperity and maximum employment.”
“I'm an old curmudgeon and I know it.”
“I'm reasonably headstrong about what I believe in, and what I go for, and I've got fantastic people around me who give me great support and advice.”
“The Disney deal created some wrinkles. I'm under contract. But I'm on standby.”
“In nature there's no blemish but the mind. None can be called deformed but the unkind.”
“My first sex scene - and it was with myself.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.
“What is suffering? I'm not sure what it is, but I know that suffering is the name we give to the origin of all the sighs, screams, and groans â€” small and large, crude and multifaceted â€” that concern us. The word defines our gaze even more than what we are looking at.”
“Not many people understand what a pump is. It must be experienced to be understood. It is the greatest feeling that I get. I search for this pump because it means that that my muscles will grow when I get it. I get a pump when the blood is running into my muscles. They become really tight with blood. Like the skin is going to explode any minute. It's like someone putting air in my muscles. It blows up. It feels fantastic.”

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