Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).
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Jess C. Scott
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing
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Thucydides
Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?
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Douglas Adams
I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.
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Matt Groening
I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.
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Ilona Andrews
More Quotes By Wynton Marsalis
Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from a tradition and requires a lot of thought and study.
It ain't as hard as picking cotton
Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later, then they track the trumpet and the singer comes in and they ship the tape somewhere. Well, none of the musicians have played...
The thing in jazz that will get Bix Beiderbecke out of his bed at two o’clock in the morning, pick that cornet up and practice into the pillow for another two or three hours, or that would make Louis Armstrong travel around the world for...
I noticed that religion gave some people a way to escape dealing with the world: “Things will be better when you die, ” the people of my grandma’s generation said as they worked themselves to death. “God wants you to forgive and love those who...
