"Johnny Mercer was my father's best friend and became mine as well. And Harold Arlen, whom I would call Uncle Harry, and Harry Warren: those were ones who I really became close to."

-- Margaret Whiting

#Friendship Quotes #Uncles Quotes #Father Quotes

“Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.”
“I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, 'cause they were cooler; they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!”
“Your ability to stand up for your truth is a muscle, and the more you exercise it the stronger it gets.”
“Only in the present do things happen.”
“Modern music and artistry would look and sound completely different if not for the groundbreaking contributions Michael Jackson gifted to the world.”

Source : "New Michael Jackson music coming in May" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. March 31, 2014.
“It was a nightmare having cameras in the house 10 hours a day for a month.”
“Give heed to the cause of the holy Roman Church, mother of all churches and teacher of the faith, whom you by the order of God, have consecrated by your blood. Against the Roman Church, you warned, lying teachers are rising, introducing ruinous sects, and drawing upon themselves speedy doom. Their tongues are fire, a restless evil, full of deadly poison. They have bitter zeal, contention in their hearts, and boast and lie against the truth.”

Source : "Exsurge Domine". Papal bull by Pope Leo X, 1520.
“By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it.”

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