"I knew when I got to play with Al Jackson I would be a better bass player because he was the best drummer in the world. I worshipped him."

-- Donald Dunn

#Player Quotes #Would Be Quotes #World Quotes

“It must be an independent House, having a free action of its own, for it is only valuable as being a regulating body, calmly considering the legislation initiated by the popular branch, and preventing any hasty or ill considered legislation which may come from that body, but it will never set itself in opposition against the deliberate and understood wishes of the people.”
“Here," she said. "This is for you." "I didn't really get you anything," I sputtered. "I mean, I didn't know that you were going to be here, and--" "Don't worry. It's your embarrassment at not having the thought that counts.”
“When you call people we you find it easy to be unfair to them, since you yourself are included in the condemnation.”
“Throw open your window and let the scenery of clouds and sky enter your room.”
“It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about.”

Source : Sir Henry Bessemer (1905). “Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: An autobiography”
“Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.”

Source : William Warburton, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Works: To which is Prefixed a Discourse by Way of General Preface, Containing Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author”, p.62
“In high school, everybody rapped. You just pounded on the table.”
“We all make mistakes. It's how we come back from the mistakes that matters.”

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