"It's awful to have to, but I've started thinking about that, you know. 86. I'm thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At least I'd like to have my brains."

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Source : "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.

Marian McPartland

#Thinking Quotes #Brain Quotes #Might Quotes

“Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years,”

Source : "Journalist Geraldo Rivera". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. February 23, 2015.
“Hate brings me to my knees, love gets me on my feet.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 08, 2015
“I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. If I'm at home, I'm usually in my office editing or reconstructing my website or whatever it may be. I just love putting creativity into a performance, so if the right script comes along, and I certainly am reading comedies and dramas now, then I'm ready willing and able to give it a shot.”
“Don't ask your customers what they want. This rule is based on the view that they probably don't know. You have to fully understand them, the context for their needs and their major dissatisfactions.”
“Mature art, I think, emerges when there's a certain balance of tensions, when there's neither neurotic prostration nor cold rationality, but an aura of energy and a drive to grasp personal "truths" still emerging into perception. To grasp and to shape them.”

Source : Earle Birney (1972). “The cow jumped over the moon: the writing and reading of poetry”, Holt McDougal
“As soon as you willfully allow a dialogue with temptation to begin, the soul is robbed of peace, just as consent to impurity destroys grace.”
“All the religions are super funny to me.”
“Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive.”

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