"The real trap of fame is its irresistibility."

-- Ingrid Bengis

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“Discrimination is discrimination no matter who the victim is, and it is always wrong. There are no special rights in America, despite the attempts by many to divide blacks and the gay community with the argument that the latter are seeking some imaginary special rights at the expense of blacks.”
“Kashmir is my last resort. I think, if I truly deserve it one day, I should go there and stay there for quite a while. Or if I really need it at any point, it should be my haven, my Shangri-la.”
“You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing jazz, or you don't.”

Source : "Tony Bennett: His Life in Art & Song". Interview with Roseanna Vitro, jazztimes.com. February 5, 2014.
“Old Time, who changes all below, To wean men gently for the grave.”

Source : Caroline Sheridan Norton (1840). “The Dream, and Other Poems”, p.236
“When you get inside go change into something loose and baggy. And for all that's holy, please wear panties and a bra.”
“Not yet, when I'm gone I'll be a legend, right now I'm just very good at what I do.”
“It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'”
“The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer, but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again.”

Source : "The Bird: Its Form and Function". Book by William Beebe, 1906.

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