"In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something."

-- Stanley Crouch

#America Quotes #Might Quotes #Patient Quotes

“Life is to be entered upon with courage.”
“As the most religious country of the 18 surveyed, the U.S. also comes in with the highest rates for teen pregnancy and for gonorrhea and syphilis.”
“In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.”
“Ere the dolphin dies Its hues are brightest. Like an infant's breath Are tropic winds before the voice of death.”

Source : Fitz-Greene Halleck (1821). “Fanny”, p.59
“I listen to all types of music so I'm influenced by everything.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In the long run, though, the greatest IT risk facing most companies is more prosaic than a catastrophe. It is, simply, overspending. IT may be a commodity, and its costs may fall rapidly enough to ensure that any new capabilities are quickly shared, but the very fact that it is entwined with so many business functions means that it will continue to consume a large portion of corporate spending.”
“It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.”
“Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however rigid these may be... I see it as the clearest evidence of genius when an artist follows his conception, his idea, his principle, so unswervingly that he has this truth of his constantly in his control, never letting go of it even for the sake of his own enjoyment of his work.”

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