"You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time."

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Source : "Virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro Takes Ukulele Seriously". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Jennifer Ludden, www.npr.org. January 1, 2011.

Jake Shimabukuro

#Genius Quotes #Mastermind Quotes

“Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned; and I will go still further, and say that this revelation, or any other revelation that the Lord had given, and deny it in your feelings, and I promise that you will be damned.”
“Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.”
“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.”
“For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.”
“Our challenge is to find the compassion for others that we want them to have for us.”
“I grew up in an artistic family where everyone was doing something in one field of the arts or another. I was I think 12 years old when I did my first acting at the Actor's Studio and James Dean once said that the only reason to become and actor is because you have to. I think that you know from a young age if that is a certain rush that you're going to need to satisfy you and to make you feel fulfilled - and if you don't then you shouldn't do it. It's just too brutal of a business most of the time.”
“When the devil wants to cause offense against the true doctrine and faith, he does not do so through insignificant people, who do not rate highly with the world, but through those who are the very best, the wisest, the holiest, and the most learned.”
“More than an institution, more than a tradition, more than a society, Masonry is one of the forms of Divine life upon earth.”

Source : Joseph Fort Newton (2013). “The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry”, p.211, Lulu Press, Inc

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