"The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try."

-- Sarah Vowell

#Trying Quotes #Armstrong Quotes #Figures Quotes

“Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about.”
“We do what we like, and we like what we do.”

Source : Song: Party Hard, Album: I Get Wet, 2001
“Art is art, and journalism is journalism.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It was humanly impossible for the disciples to free themselves from their selfish pursuit of self-exaltation, just as it's impossible for us to free ourselves from the very same sins.”
“Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.”
“Interviews don't go to the core of my life,”
“While the fashion industry may, at least at the top end, be thriving, the notion of fashion itself is becoming more and more meaningless. Any discipline in fashion has long since evaporated; the idea of a single fashionable skirt length, or heel height, is incomprehensible. The definition of the fashionable has become so skimpy that it refers not to the mode of dress of everyday people--the clothes that have sufficiently caught the popular imagination to be worn in a widespread manner--but only to the styles that momentarily excite members of the fashion caravan.”
“If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.”

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