"Michael Jordan didnâ€™t become a great basketball player because he wanted to do product endorsements. Van Gogh didnâ€™t become a great painter because he dreamed that one day his paintings would sell for $50 million."

-- Jack D. Schwager

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“I'm on cloud nine.. i wouldn't even say cloud nine... more like cloud ten... cloud nine was old news.”
“Family is 100 per cent my top priority.”
“My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.”

Source : Dave Van Ronk (2013). “The Mayor of MacDougal Street [2013 edition]: A Memoir”, p.4, Da Capo Press
“Build your architecture from what is beneath your feet.”
“Abstinence for me is about romance. It has nothing to do with my relationship with God. It's definitely a bonus in that department, but it's nothing spiritual. It's about giving something special to that person you're going to spend the rest of your life with.”
“It is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplies the existence of violence and bitterness in the universe, while the former may develop a sense of shame in the opponent, and thereby bring about a transformation and change of heart.”
“We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction.”

Source : "Prince of the Ghetto". Book by M. Samuel, 1948.
“I really think that discrimination and racism is a horrible thing. And I don't want any form of it in our government, in our public sphere.”

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