We acquire the strength we have overcome.
My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.
The wonderful thing about Jazz is its willingness to take chances.
We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.
If you love what you do, if you love going to the office, if you really like it – not just say it, but really like it – it keeps you young and energised. I really love what I do.
If women ran the world we wouldn’t have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
Bird said he worked as dishwasher at Onyx Club on 52nd St. in the early 1940s just to hear Art Tatum play.
In fact, I think it’s disgraceful even to keep Julian Assange holed up in the Ecuadorean Embassy. I did visit him there once, but you can guess yourself. It’s, in many ways, worse than imprisonment.
No one wants to quit when he’s losing and no one wants to quit when he’s winning.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.
I’ve been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn’t require my presence.
I don’t pop my cork for every man I see.
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
My greatest fear is getting bored.
You’re just as beautiful as you feel.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea.
We can make a rough distinction between the managerial class and the rest. The managers take part in decision-making in the state, the private economy, and the doctrinal institutions. The rest are to cede authority to state and private elites, to accept what they are told…
I was labeled a ‘theatre type’ in high school, which made it hard to fit in and feel part of things.
The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.
