"I don't know where jazz is going. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens."

-- Thelonious Monk

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“It's easier to direct. If you direct something poorly and re-shoot it the next day, stage it better, make it work better, you have a lot of possibilities. You can edit it in certain ways so that it works, but there's no getting around weaknesses of the script.”
“Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back.”
“Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.”
“It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.”
“Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.”
“Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.”
“We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that by reporting the truth. And so there was the moral outrage over this general and the ambassador in Saigon who kept denying the truth we would see.”
“Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.”

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