"In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority."

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Source : "The tyranny of the minority" by Peter Fenn, www.politico.com. March 19, 2009.

Peter Fenn

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“I was composing before I realised I was a composer. It came more or less naturally. There were a couple of old ladies lived next door to me, and I frequented their house more than I did my own, because it had all those marvellous things in that that old ladies do have. And they had a piano, and I used to play around with that; they showed me how to read music and I used to play to them.”

Source : "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. August 24, 2002.
“The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data - has rapidly become a widespread reality.”
“All parents gush about what it's like to be a parent. I love it.”
“Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.”
“When you can bear your own silence, you are free.”
“I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.”
“Obviously because of my personal connection to Mandela and having had his story as part of my childhood, I knew how awesome he was.”
“I'm as restless as a willow in a windstorm.”

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