"What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes."

-- Antonio Carlos Jobim

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“Some said he shouldn't save Detroit. But President Obama made the tough and right call to save more than a million American jobs in an important, iconic industry.”
“No matter how difficult the situation is, it won't last forever. What follows the night is the day. What follows the winter is the spring.”
“If time be a ring of gold, opportunity is the rich diamond that gives it both its value and glory.”
“Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died.”
“It always felt like I had to be a realist.”

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“I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.”
“No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.”
“The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.”

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