The Music Business is a long and shallow hallway lined with crooks and thieves… and then there's a bad side… Hunter S. Thompson
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“There is a Talmudic saying, "No one is the owner of his instincts," “But controlling them, that is civilization.” quoting Elie Wiesel
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Gov. Jerry Brown- "I believe in the Hernando Cortes approach. When you hit the shore, burn the ships. There is no plan B”.
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As Joe Harris, a linebacker with five teams from 1977-82, says: "I know I had nine or 10 concussions, because I played through them. A lot of times, I'm out there and I was dazed, and I heard guys say, `He's knocked out, and he don't even know it.' And then you talk to your coach, and they bring out smelling salts. `Give him a hit of that, and put him back out on the field.' And they show you fingers, and you say it's three when it's two. And they say, `Get back out there. Just hit the one in the middle.''
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Golfer Lee Trevino, on what it means to win a major championship:
"I played the tour in 1967 and told jokes and nobody laughed. Then I won the U.S Open the next year, told the same jokes, and everybody laughed like hell."
Workman Publishing Company- Page A Day
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Following his third defeat at running for the Presidency,William Jennings Bryan told the story of a drunk who tried several times to get into a private club and was thrown out after each attempt. After being thrown out the third time, he picked himself off the sidewalk and concluded: "They can't fool me. Those fellows don't want me in there."
Transcribed from Theodore Roosevelt A Life, by Nathan Miller
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The challenge of statesmanship is to define the components of both power and morality and strike a balance between them.
Henry Kissinger
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Just as the hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so the routine of everyday life can keep us from seeing the vast radiance and the secret wonders that fill the world.
Chasidic, 18th Century