"You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there."

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Source : Josephine Tey (1998). “The Franchise Affair”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

Josephine Tey

#Tin Quotes #Tails Quotes #Denial Quotes

“I pretty much isolated myself away from drums. I stopped looking at Modern Drummer, I stopped looking at websites.”
“There is no substitute for hard work.”
“I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.”
“God has not made this world to be a nest for us, and if we try to make it such for ourselves, he plants thorns in it, so that we may be compelled to mount and find our soulâ€™s true home somewhere else, in a higher and nobler sphere than this poor world can give.”
“We have to do a better job of putting some rules on the insurance companies.”

Source : "State Of The Union With John King", transcripts.cnn.com. September 6, 2009.
“I run with a credit card and a cell phone, so when there is not a 7-Eleven around, like some of the country roads out there, I can get him to deliver a pizza to me. And I kind of give them a coordinate, a corner.”
“I have toured with Klemens Marktl, playing his original compositions and arrangements. He is a wonderful drummer, a writer possessing a high degree of creativity, and an assured band leader.”
“There are a lot of reasons people don't talk about climate change. One of them has to do with the language of science, and people feeling not competent about this issue.”

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