"I began to learn acceptance, direction, understanding and perception - all elements that had been sadly lacking in my life."

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Source : "Singer Lou Rawls dies of cancer at 72" by The Associated Press, www.today.com. January 7, 2006.

Lou Rawls

#Acceptance Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Perception Quotes

“I have a love of baseball and a love of music.”
“Madonna is a living, breathing cash register.”
“The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.”
“Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.”
“Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books will probably not be suffering water damage in the basements of their authors' houses 20 years from now. But historically, anyway, that's not the way the novelistic ecology works.”
“Philosophy must never be divorced from action. Unless it is put into practice, philosophy is nothing more than an intellectual game.”
“The man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing," mused the Inspector, "Ha! I have a theory. These flashes come upon me at times... What do you think of this, Holmes? Sholto was, on his own confession, with his brother last night. The brother died in a fit, on which Sholto walked off the treasure! How's that?" "On which the dead man very considerately got up and locked the door on the inside," said Holmes.”
“All my stuff is pretty seamless - like now, while I'm touring [Yesterday I Sang The Blues], today I'm going to go in the studio, I'm writing my next one. For me it's continual.”

Source : Source: revive-music.com

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