"To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years."

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Norman Granz

#Play Quotes #Philadelphia Quotes #Years Quotes

“Choosing a Board of Directors based on race and gender is a lousy way to run a company.”
“I am grateful for emphasis on reading the scriptures. I hope that for you this will become something far more enjoyable than a duty; that, rather, it will become a love affair with the word of God. I promise you that as you read, your minds will be enlightened and your spirits will be lifted. At first it may seem tedious, but that will change into a wondrous experience with thoughts and words of things divine. Gordon B. Hinckley”
“I do not have any pets. We travel too much.”
“Im coming out with a wine... Im actually a restaurateur. I have Famous Famiglia Pizzeria that has opened up in the Sacramento airport. Im also working with my business partner on opening up the Linnethia Lounge.”
“Be a mistress to none, but all good to some.”

Source : Song: Jang a Lang
“it's a good idea to wait a few months before joining anything when you arrive at a village. A bookseller friend who retired to nearby Oxfordshire, and was worried he might be bored, got himself on to every village committee in the first six months, and spent the next ten years extricating himself.”

Source : Jilly Cooper (2012). “Angels Rush In”, p.402, Random House
“Brian Turner writes as only a soldier can, of terror and compassion,Â hurt and horror, sympathy and desire. He takes us into the truthÂ and trauma of the Iraq war in language that is precise, delicateÂ and beautiful, even as it tells of a suicide bomber, a skullÂ shattered by a bullet, a blade in a bloodgroove.”
“'Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God' (Rom. 10:17). That is whence faith comes. It is not for me to sit down and wait for faith to come stealing over me with a strong sensation, but is for me to take God at His Word.”

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