"The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Our World Quotes #Creative Quotes #Minorities Quotes

“When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD.”
“As we mourn President Mandelaâ€™s passing we must ask ourselves the fundamental question - what shall we do to respond to the tasks of building a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and prosperous South Africa, a people-centred society free of hunger, poverty, disease and inequality, as well as Africaâ€™s renaissance, to whose attainment President Nelson Mandela dedicated his whole life?”
“Such widely different things as war and picnics will surely show a man up.”
“Valentine's Day is the day all singletons like me dread”
“I can't say whether or not I'll ever get married again, but I'm open to the possibility.”
“I remember one time I tried to pity this fool. He told me his name was Jeff. He was married. He pulled out his wallet and showed me three pictures of his kids; Kelly, Robert, Brittany. Real cute kids. Don't get too close man. It's hard to pity a fool if you get too close.”

Source : "'I pity the fool': Mr T on jury duty" by Cheryl V. Jackson, www.pressreader.com. April 28, 2009.
“I always thought of my career as a body of work and not just about numbers.”
“[On her collaboration with Adolph Green:] We stare at each other. We meet, whether or not we have a project, just to keep up a continuity of working. There are long periods when nothing happens, and it's just boring and disheartening. But we have a theory that nothing's wasted, even those long days of staring at one another. You sort of have to believe that, don't you? That you had to go through all that to get to the day when something did happen.”

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