"One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes from some of the most famous ballrooms throughout the country."

-- Nick Clooney

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“Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of progress that you can't even imagine in advance.”
“Everybody has equal opportunity, and I think that is true for everything.”

Source : "I think we changed the whole business ethos in India: Mukesh Ambani". Interview with Sudeep Chakravarti, indiatoday.intoday.in. June 30, 1993.
“I donâ€™t have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like”
“We have this mistaken notion that everybody in the world has to go to college. The colleges are already crowded with people who never in this world will absorb more than a rudimentary education, and we dilute everything to meet this low standard.”
“It was only in the late nineteenth century and then the twentieth century, with the maturation of consumer capitalism, that a shift was made toward the cultivation of unbounded desire. We must appreciate this to realize that late modern consumption, consumption as we now know it, is not fundamentally about materialism or the consumption of physical goods. Affluence and consumer-oriented capitalism have moved us well beyond the undeniable efficiencies and benefits of refrigeration and indoor plumbing.”
“Here's to responsibility," he toasted. "Twice a week." "And recklessness every day in between," I emphasized. He grinned and touched his can to mine.”
“I have to birth those ideas. Those designs have to come into the world. It's not only my goal, it's my reason for being on the planet. If I'm not doing them, then I'm not fulfilling my calling. It's very instinctual for me.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.”

Source : Holbrook Jackson (1912). “All Manner of Folk: Interpretations and Studies”, p.31, Ardent Media

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