"Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language."

-- Evan Parker

#Attitude Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“one tends to suspect others of what one is guilty of oneself. The unfaithful wife is quick to suspect the husband of infidelity.”
“It's Annie and me they're all sitting around here like cardboard people judging; It's Annie and me. And what we did that they think is wrong, when you pare it all down, was fall in love.”

Source : Nancy Garden (2017). “Annie on My Mind”, p.112, Open Road Media
“The ones [comedies] that I always liked, whether it's Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, or Fast Times of Ridgemont High, they were all about two hours, or a little bit over two hours. With that extra 15 or 20 minutes, you can get to real character and you're not just stuck in plot.”
“I make it a policy every election to only debate once, Democrats and Progressives. And I will say that the way that you have acted, very candidly, has been dishonorable in this entire campaign.”
“The person in power takes up the most space.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“To learn is to incur surprise-I mean really learning, not just refreshing our memory or adding a new fact. And to invent is to bestow surprise-I mean really inventing, not just innovating what others have done.”

Source : John H. Lienhard (2006). “How Invention Begins: Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of New Machines”, p.227, Oxford University Press
“It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. / No one knows what he can do till he tries.”
“The executions of agents, partisans, saboteurs, suspicious people, indulging in espionage and sabotage, and those who were of a detrimental effect to the German Army, were, in my opinion, completely in accordance with the Hague Convention.”

Source : "The Eichmann Kommandos". Book by Michael Angelo Musmanno, p. 153, 1961.

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