"I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific'."

-- Igor Stravinsky

#Age Quotes #Negative Quotes #Different Quotes

“I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.”

Source : Song: God Bless The U.S.A, Album: American Patriot
“The real two-party system in America is the Meanies and the Weenies. The Meanies want to take away your benefits, and the Weenies want to compromise with them.”

Source : "Alan Grayson Strikes Back". Interview with Lloyd Grove, www.newsweek.com. November 28, 2011.
“The hand opens to the word, opens to distance.”
“The field was even greener than my boy's mind had pictured it. In later years, friends of ours visited Ireland and said the grass there was plenty green all right, but that not even the Emerald Isle itself was as green as the grass that grew in Ebbets Field.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn't seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history, this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn. Too late.”

Source : Joseph Stiglitz (2015). “The Great Divide”, p.110, Penguin UK
“I learned from my mistakes; I was able to accept the things that were my fault and to be able to grow from that. You have to be able to see growth from your experiences, and I've done that.”
“God wants to do immeasurably more in & through your life than you could ask.”
“Even though you're not by me side, Night, you will forever be my first man, my Zettai Kareshi”

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