"We must row in whatever boat we find ourselves in."

-- Christie Watson

“Music is silence, which in dreaming begins to sound”

Source : Max Picard (1963). “Man and Language”
“Poverty became something one could see and experience firsthand, no matter where one was on the economic ladder; it became something you could viscerally experience through the lives of friends, family, neighbors, colleagues. I'd venture to say it's a rare person in 2013 America who knows nobody who lost a job in the recession, or knows nobody whose home went underwater or who went into foreclosure.”
“Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it.”
“Being without work [in the United States] is still far better for most people than being employed in Central America.”
“I'm English, without a doubt. I will never ever say I'm not English. English born and bred. I'm Turkish, though”
“I'd love to act. I feel that it's another naked, mysterious challenge, like jazz. It kind of intrigues me in the same way.”
“My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune.”
“Remember that you are more likely to die because you execute badly than get crushed by a competitor.”

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