"True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time."

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George Gershwin

#Music Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #People Quotes

“I would love to be better at cooking but I hate cleaning up afterwards. I love the process of putting everything together and the chance of getting it right or wrong but it takes ten minutes to eat it and then ages to clean.”
“If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems labeling them as such. After all, cancer will kill one in every two men and one in every three women now alive, reports Samuel Epstein, chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition. Like our ancestors, we act in ways that will bemuse future societies. The military-industrial complex lubricates the mass-agriculture system with fossil fuels. Tons of heavy metals and other hazardous, even radioactive, waste is sprayed on American agricultural soil.”
“Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.”
“Giving a party is like having a baby: its conception is more fun than its completion; and once you have begun it, it is almost impossible to stop.”

Source : Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”
“Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.”
“I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.”
“The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.”

Source : Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, p.639, Candlewick Press
“With BitTorrent, the cat's out of the bag.”

Source : "The BitTorrent Effect". Interview with Clive Thompson, www.wired.com. January 1, 2005.

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