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“I had just turned 20, and Jackie told me the only way to be successful at anything was to go out and do it. He said baseball was a game you played every day, not once a week.”
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“Vagabonding is about refusing to exile travel to some other, seemingly more appropriate, time of your life. Vagabonding is about taking control of your circumstances instead of passively waiting for them to decide your fate.”
Source : Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.17, Ballantine Books
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“I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel, and I think that the quality of the novel I write will derive precisely from the peculiarity or aloneness, if you will, of the experience I write from.”
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“I’m glad we had the times together just to laugh and sing a song, seems like we just got started and then before you know it, the times we had together were gone.”
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“Your choices run out when your money does.”
Source : Clara Fraser (1998). “Revolution, She Wrote”, p.272, Red Letter Press
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“Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.”
Source : Christopher L. Moody, Idi Amin (1977). “The wit and wisdom of Idi Amin”
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“In concert, I often try to feel the audience and feel their way of hearing. If I feel that there is no contact between the audience and the music, I try to look stronger within myself, hoping that this will lead to a better contact.”
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“The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.”
Source : Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Visual Thinking”, p.3, Univ of California Press