"Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain."

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Source : "The Sociology of Rock". Book by Simon Frith, 1978.

Curtis Mayfield

#Purpose Quotes #Host Quotes #Wells Quotes

“Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball.”
“If young people had love, hope, true education, the arts, full and meaningful lives they won’t join gangs. My life since living the gang and drugs has been directed to making positive what it means to be Chicano, human, man, woman, and on how to draw out the imagination and creativity that all people have.”

Source : Interview with Elvira Carrizal-Dukes, www.epl.org. June 29, 2011.
“It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.”
“Take risks in order to innovate”
“Being varied is something I do instinctively and naturally. I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 13, 2013
“I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.”
“Come to think of it, maybe God is a He after all, because only a cruel force would create something this beautiful and make it inaccessible to most people”
“As a musician, I look for certain things that stimulate me. And what I look for is something that's an evolution on a particular genre that I never heard before.”

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