"History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions."

-- Ted Koppel

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“It happened in New York, April 10th, nineteen years ago. Even my hand balks at the date. I had to push to write it down, just to keep the pen moving on the paper. It used to be a perfectly ordinary day, but now it sticks up on the calendar like a rusty nail.”
“Get out of your comfort zone. Wake up the sleeping giant in you.”
“I think I definitely enjoy recording, but I think it's more fun to go out and perform live, because it's like instant gratification, you know? You feel the response immediately.”
“To be successful, all you have to do is work half-days; you can work the first twelve hours or the second twelve hours.”

Source : Don Shula (1995). “Everyone's a Coach: You Can Inspire Anyone to be a Winner”, Zondervan
“I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.”
“Being an electronic genius was a reputation I had, maybe being even into math and science almost exclusively and not wanting to be in the other normal parts of the world.”
“The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.”
“It's funny how you can think you know someone pretty well, and then something happens or they do something that makes you understand that you didn't really know them at all.”

Source : Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Sammy Keyes and the Dead Giveaway”, p.3, Yearling

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