"I need to get up and walk around and keep my knees from getting bad, which is what's happening."

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Source : "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.

Marian McPartland

#Knees Quotes #Needs Quotes #Walks Quotes

“Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty.”
“When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.”
“War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.”

Source : Major General Smedley Butler's speech, 1933.
“The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.”
“Poor thieves in halters we behold; And great thieves in their chains of gold.”
“There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.”

Source : Tryon Edwards (1853). “The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors”, p.181
“I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world.”

Source : L. Frank Baum (2013). “Oz, the Complete Collection, Volume 4: Rinkitink in Oz; The Lost Princess of Oz; The Tin Woodman of Oz”, p.157, Simon and Schuster
“A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.”

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