"Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal."

-- Ray Charles

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“I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn't want to take over someone else's cuisine. I wanted to start from scratch.”

Source : "René Redzepi: the outsider" by Sabine Durrant, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2010.
“A student well versed in even one technique will naturally see corresponding points in other techniques. A upper level punch, a lower punch, a front punch and a reverse punch are all essentially the same. Looking over thirty-odd kata, he should be able to see that they are essentially variations on just a handful.”
“Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said, 'Trust in the Lord, but keep your powder dry.”
“There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.”
“If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny.”
“I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer. I grew up in a household that believed in social justice. I have always understood myself as having an obligation to stand on the side of the silenced, the oppressed, and the mistreated.”
“Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.”
“Think you can't write women? Don't. Write people and make them women.”

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