"It's fair to say that Jews dominated basketball and that started in the 30s in all the big cities. I think it was simply because Jews lived in ghettoes and basketball is a great schoolyard game. You don't need a lot of space or equipment and you can adapt it to how many players you have."

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Source : Source: alanpaul.net

Dolph Schayes

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“I was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and am a product of a family that were jazz aficionados and also very interested in progressive politics. And so I had a lot of artists and musicians in my home. Lots of Latin music, folk, and jazz and blues, bluegrass-type of stuff. Painters and stuff like that.”

Source : Source: www.aaa.si.edu
“I went to Texas a few times for gigs and adopted the cowboy look. Every man, at some point in his life, goes through a cowboy stage - everyone! Well, at least everyone that I look up to!”
“Everybody has something now. It's become very over-saturated, and it's hard to weed out what's good, what you should watch and what you have time to watch. And Twitter was much less crowded, at the time, and it was an easier way to reach people. So, the combination of having a great video, a lot more access to people through Twitter, and having Kickstarter be this new thing in. We tapped into it, at its inception, and got people interested in it just based on the concept of what Kickstarter was. The timing was right.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“If you go by other people's opinions or predictions, you'll just end up talking yourself out of something. If you're running down the track of life thinking that it's impossible to break life's records, those thoughts have a funny way of sinking into your feet.”
“Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.”
“When I do get time, I like to hike and I take lots of vitamins and powders to keep healthy.”
“Unfortunately, in the very act of weeding, you make it possible for new weeds to grow.”

Source : Barbara Damrosch (2003). “The Garden Primer”, p.54, Rodale
“The people who send us fan mail written in blood say the nicest things, so it doesn't freak us out too much.”

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