"I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years."

-- Thelonious Monk

#Years Quotes #Play Quotes #Fifteen Quotes

“...learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy..”

Source : Edwin A. Abbott, Thomas Banchoff, Seth Caplan, Jeffrey Travis, Dano Johnson (2009). “Flatland: The Movie Edition”, p.80, Princeton University Press
“The world is littered with the bodies of people that tried to stick it to ole J.R. Ewing!”
“No one can duplicate the confidence that RSA offers after 20 years of cryptanalytic review.”
“Harriet Tubman, woman of earth, whipscarred, a summoning, a shinning”

Source : Robert Earl Hayden, Frederick Glaysher (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.181, University of Michigan Press
“I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec.”
“The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me.”
“If you have got the public in the palm of your hand, you can be sure that is where they want to be.”
“If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.”

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