"They didn't dictate to me as to what kind of music that they wanted me to play or what tunes, what musicians that I was going to use. They let me do my thing. That's one reason I stayed there for twenty-eight years."

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Source : "My Conversation With Horace Silver". All About Jazz interview, www.allaboutjazz.com. December 18, 2003.

Horace Silver

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“[Director Richard Tanne] was inspired by their [Barack and Michelle Obama] flirtation, and their connection. That's not normal with politicians who are married - they usually look forced or awkward.”

Source : Source: www.complex.com
“I write small and weird. Romcoms are not in my skill set.”
“Not a stone but has its history.”
“By the work one knows the workman.”
“We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.”
“Americanism is not a matter of skin or color.”

Source : "Sen. Daniel Inouye On Pearl Harbor, After 70 Years". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 7, 2011.
“In the broadest sense, evolution is merely change, and so is all-pervasive; galaxies, languages, and political systems all evolve. Biological evolution ... is change in the properties of populations of organisms that transcend the lifetime of a single individual.”
“I've got more creative control when I do music.”

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