"When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity."

-- Lorna Luft

#Opportunity Quotes #Tonight Quotes #Los Angeles Quotes

“The moon is brighter since the barn burned.”
“It is godlike to unloose the spirit, and forget yourself in thought.”

Source : Nathaniel Parker Willis (1848). “Poems of Early and After Years”, p.246
“Reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning.”

Source : "GOP congressman: Ebola could spread across the border". www.msnbc.com. July 15, 2014.
“The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would be folly for another. Who is qualified to judge? Only the universe, which passes the judgment of survival on all peoples.”

Source : Walter M. Miller Jr (2013). “Dark Benediction”, p.83, Hachette UK
“Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.”
“I do love that discovery of when you're trying to figure out how to make something work, and it happens in a way that you didn't predict.”

Source : Source: www.hbook.com
“Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation.”
“So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him.”

Source : "A Dialogue With Archie Shepp". Interview with Scott Cashman, www.archieshepp.net. December, 10 1990.

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