"I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music."

-- Charlie Parker

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“Heroes come in all sizes, and you don't have to be a giant hero. You can be a very small hero. It's just as important to understand that accepting self-responsibi lity for the things you do, having good manners, caring about other people-these are heroic acts. Everybody has the choice of being a hero or not being a hero every day of their lives.”

Source : "Of Myth And Men". Interview with Bill Moyers, content.time.com. April 18, 1999.
“There is no limit to what you can imagine. And with commitment, with effort, what you can imagine you can become. Put your mind to work for you. Believe that you can do it. The world will tell you that you can't. Yet, in your belief you'll find the strength, you'll find the ability, to do it anyway.”
“Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught.”

Source : Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”
“New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.”
“All that is important comes in quietness and waiting.”
“Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.”

Source : Bjarne Stroustrup (1991). “C Plus Plus Programming Language”, Addison-Wesley / Helix Books
“To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace”
“I don't really know what's going to happen in the future, but I think it's really important for bands to have strong connection with their fans.”

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