"Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!"

-- Toots Thielemans

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“I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.”
“When you're a little kid, growing up, most of us know what's right and wrong. Our parents teach us that discipline.”
“Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments”
“A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.”
“THE JOURNEY IS FROM HERE TO HERE. AND THE ONLY TIME YOU CAN ARRIVE IS NOW.”
“while all the pomp and circumstance of war animated others, it only saddened me; and all of past reflection, all of future dread, made the whole grandeur of the martial scene, and all the delusive seduction of martial music, fill my eyes frequently with tears ...”
“The most disgusting four letter word in the English language is 'cage'.”
“I've watched politics for years. Republicans rarely get credit for the good things that happen in the economy during their watch. Democrats always get more credit than they deserve. They are just better at political discourse that we are.”

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