"Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two."

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Alfred Kinsey

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“Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle.”
“Baldwin is sort of getting to be a bit funny. I don't know what happened, but a few years ago they suddenly went bankrupt and Gibson bought the whole outfit. Since then they haven't seemed to be doing an awfully good job of providing pianos.”

Source : "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.
“I don't think talent has anything to do with inspiration. Inspiration creates talent. People prioritize innate talent too much. It gives them license to walk around and act like assholes. I think I straddle a line between being innately talented and having had to put in some work. You ever go to a party where there are a lot of creative people and they feel like they have license to just act any kind of way? I'm not really a moral person myself, but they just tend to never ever be sincere because they believe their art or the fact that they are artists makes them holy in some way.”
“If you ever had your moon salted you'd know how painful that could be.”
“Liminality may perhaps be regarded as the Nay to all positive structural assertions, but as in some sense the source of them all, and, more than that, as a realm of pure possibility whence novel configurations of ideas and relations may arise”

Source : Victor Witter Turner (1967). “The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual”, p.97, Cornell University Press
“Desire and dedication are everything!”
“Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.”
“since piety has become the fashion at Court, dramatic authors imagine that their pieces would be more welcome if they added in a little devotion. At first their plan succeeded, but now no one can bear their comedies.”

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