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Lionel Hampton quote: "Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her,..."

Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands.

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I had the afro when I was in high school. I had the flattop during a short period in the early '90s. And I've had different variations of dreadlocks. I'll admit to those! Tim Meadows
I didn't do a movie until I was almost 30. I'm grateful for that because it gave me a chance to be an adult in the world and do work in the regional theater that very few people cared about. I loved it and I wanted to do that stuff. Annette Bening
You do become very close like a family but because you see each other for such an intense period of time on the set everyday. You really don't end up socializing that much. Sela Ward
I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon. com. Piers Anthony
Jurgen Habermas quote: "One never really knows who one's enemy is."
One never really knows who one's enemy is. Jurgen Habermas
When I’m old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea. And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music, and booze around. And a damn good kitchen to cook in. Ava Gardner
Richard Bach quote: "Listen to what you know instead of what you fear."
Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. Richard Bach
But it was not the boyish grin she had known when he bounded along the low-gravity inner corridors of Battle School. This smile had weariness in it, and old fears long mastered but still present. It was the smile of wisdom. Orson Scott Card
Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team. J. C. Watts
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It's very difficult sometimes having bands, you know, when all the members aren't on the same page. Stanley Clarke
C. S. Lewis quote: "Why should quiet ruminants as you and I have been born in such..."
Why should quiet ruminants as you and I have been born in such a ghastly age? C. S. Lewis
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feelings as “moral indignation,” which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue. The “indignant” person has for once the satisfaction of despising and treating a creature as “inferior,” coupled with the feeling of his own superiority and rightness. Erich Fromm
Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it. Alberto Giacometti
Would age now swiftly overtake him? Would this terrible nodding last now for all his days, so that men said aloud in his presence, it is nothing, he is old and does nothing but forget? And would he nod as though he too were saying, Yes, it is nothing, I am old and do nothing but forget? But who would know that he said, I do nothing but remember? Alan Paton
That's wrong," she declared. "Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it? But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down. Haruki Murakami