"I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell."

-- Robert Quine

#Stuff Quotes #Funky Quotes #Kenny Quotes

“I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support; you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares where youâ€™re from or what you did before.”
“Why is it that big companies fail when the technology changes? It happens in every industry, so what's the pattern? What are they all doing wrong?”

Source : "Jesse Schell: Xbox, PlayStation and the Innovator's Dilemma". Interview with Matthew Handrahan, www.gamesindustry.biz. August 5, 2013.
“Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.”
“Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and then you will know, not whether or not the country is just, but whether or not it has any love for justice, or any concept of it. It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”

Source : "No Name in the Street". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1972.
“Great truths that are stumbling blocks to the natural man are nevertheless the very foundations upon which the confidence of the spiritual man is built.”
“In baseball, you're always moving people around.”
“Personal power means being secure and confident inside yourself.”

Source : Gershen Kaufman, Lev Raphael, Pamela Espeland (1999). “Stick Up for Yourself!: Every Kid's Guide to Personal Power and Positive Self-Esteem”, p.8, Free Spirit Publishing
“What is moral is what you feel good after.”

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