"Im more keen on the person Im involved with showing me his commitment rather than going through a marriage to display commitment to the world."

-- Greta Scacchi

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“Jazz stands for freedom.”
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“I spent six years at United and I owe them everything that I am today. I made history at United and won many trophies. It was a pleasure to play at Old Trafford.”
“The Christian religion is not about the soul; it is about man, body and all, and about the world of things with which he was created, and in which he is redeemed. Donâ€™t knock materiality. God invented it.”
“At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under pretext of freeing yourself, to be illogical and incoherent by getting rid of structure and simply piling a lot of notes one on top of the other. There's no beat anymore. You can't keep time with your foot. I believe that what is happening to jazz with people like Ornette Coleman, for instance, is bad. There's a new idea that consists in destroying everything and find what's shocking and unexpected; whereas jazz must first of all tell a story that anyone can understand.”
“Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.”
“As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour.”
“In the ten years I was president of the Teamsters, I had raised the membership from eight hundred thousand to more than 2 million and made it the largest single labor union the world.”

Source : "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 13), 1975.

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