"Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else."

-- Duke Ellington

#Two Quotes #Numbers Quotes

“I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.”
“Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased.”
“If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.”

Source : Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.
“The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”
“The US government decided today that because I did such a good job investigating the cyber-industrial complex, theyâ€™re now going to send me to investigate the prison-industrial complex.”

Source : "Barrett Brown sentenced to 63 months for 'merely linking to hacked material'" by Nicky Woolf, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2015.
“It really is amazing all the things she has done for us (him and his three siblings). Itâ€™s unrealistic, really, to see my mother do so much so right And thatâ€™s one of the reasons I love her so much. She has always been there.”
“I like to go in the corner, in the quiet, 'cause I got to hear my thoughts. If I hear the beat for, like, five seconds, I basically got the tempo, and I don't need to hear it no more. I just focus and write.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“People just try to put you in a box and I don't see myself in any particular box. I'm making my own box. There's no way I would be able to make the music I'm making without dancing.”

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