"My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano."

-- Marian McPartland

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“Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them.”
“I feel if some kid has sat down and felt I'm important enough to write two pages of words to and take up a lot of his valuable time, then he deserves a few words back, or even a phone call as I have done on a few occasions.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If you're working for a good company and you're happy there, and you're being compensated accordingly, and your work satisfies you, you should stay there.”
“The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that.”
“I don't buy fur coats or jewelry. I have old cars.”

Source : "Peta Wilson's Verbal Seduction" by Tyler Cabot, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“The Rothschilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are the representatives and agents - men who never think of lending a shilling to their next-door neighbors, for purposes of honest industry, unless upon the most ample security, and at the highest rate of interest - stand ready, at all times, to lend money in unlimited amounts to those robbers and murderers, who call themselves governments, to be expended in shooting down those who do not submit quietly to being robbed and enslaved.”
“Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do.”

Source : Lurlene McDaniel (2000). “Dawn Rochelle: Four Novels”, Starfire
“I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.”

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