"My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician."

-- Branford Marsalis

#Dad Quotes #Taken Quotes #House Quotes

“They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind.”

Source : "Gateway". Book by Frederik Pohl, April 1977.
“The one single factor that determines societyâ€™s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.”
“Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.”
“Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.”
“The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.”
“As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.”
“Look at the fact Donald Trump cannot tie a tie. My father took me aside and taught me how to do this when I was eight. He can't shake hands. These are the basic building blocks of traditional masculine style, and he's a parody of it.”
“Ive always been ambitious to be very good at what I do.”

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