"Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving."

-- Carla Bley

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“I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.”
“I say grace. I'm a big believer in grace. I happen to believe in a God that made all the food and so I'm pretty grateful for that and I thank him for that. But I'm also thankful for the people that put the food on the table.”

Source : "Clean Your Grill, And Other Hot Holiday Tips From Food Network's Alton Brown". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. May 26, 2012.
“Thought is action in rehearsal.”
“Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.”
“There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'”
“Suburbia is not going to run on biodiesel. The easy-motoring tourist industry is not going to run on biodiesel, wind power and solar fuel.”
“If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.”
“My parents would always have us, as many times as we could, sit together for dinner and talk about what was happening in our lives, and so we created a great recipe where I could be completely honest with my mother and to an extent my father, being an attorney.”

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