"I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion."

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Ricky Jay

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“I know nothing, by experience, of party discipline. I would rather be a raccoon-dog, and belong to a Negro in the forest, than to belong to any party, further than to do justice to all, and to promote the interests of my country. The time will and must come, when honesty will receive its reward, and when the people of this nation will be brought to a sense of their duty, and will pause and reflect how much it cost us to redeem ourselves from the government of one man.”

Source : "David Crockett: His Life and Adventures". Book by John Stevens Cabot Abbott, p. 294, 1875.
“As a male, I thought the female voice was so strong, unique, real and accessible to most females. In some way, shape or form, they felt like they could relate to it, on some level, because they went through some form of unspeakable horror like what Kilgrave did to Jessica [Jones]. That, in itself, is something that most people shy away from, even in shows that are on cable or in movies.”
“I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet.”
“At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided into smaller parts. Nevertheless, for entirely speculative reasons the philosophers of Antiquity, especially the Stoics, concluded this concept to be quite unnecessary. The prodigious development of physics has now reached the same conclusion as those philosophers, Empedocles and Democritus in particular, who lived around 500 B.C.E. and for whom even ancient man had a lively admiration.”
“Four times a year withdraw for three to four hours for the purpose of reorienting your life goals”
“Talk is free. You never know what's going to happen after you talk. There's always a perception about a guy until you actually sit down and talk with him.”
“My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.”

Source : Abigail Adams, John Adams (1848). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams”, p.95
“After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding.”

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