"No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts."

-- John Philip Sousa

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“Scientists have been saying, for an awfully long time, that we're all interconnected. Scientists would use the word 'ecosystem' to express that idea. Obviously, people can't survive without air and water, and we rely on plants and animals for food, and plants and animals rely on us to preserve their habitats.”

Source : Source: to.pbs.org
“To me the foundation of all life is in the ocean.”
“I'm a fan of some of the hyphy stuff. Hyphy has been going on a lot longer than the press has been recognizing it.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.”
“I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.”
“Once you're in, you're in. It's like the Mafia. Once a Monkee, always a Monkee.”
“When you make a movie, it's a movie, and things change based on who you put in the movie. And so it's, you know, obviously not exactly your life, but I feel that I did learn a lot about my parents.”

Source : "'Infinitely Polar Bear' Director Relives Childhood With Mentally Ill Parent". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. June 22, 2015.
“Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.”

Source : Sir Richard Francis Burton (1894). “The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû Al-Yazdi: A Lay of the Higher Law”

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