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“I think the band can really swing when it swings easy, when it can just play along like you are cutting butter,”
Source : Count Basie, Albert Murray (1985). “Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie”, Plume
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“I just want an opportunity. If you don't like the audition, don't hire me! But if you don't want to even see me -- that's hurtful. And why? You know nothing about me!”
Source : "Jessica Biel In Allure: My Beauty 'Really Is A Problem'". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2009. 
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“There is no shape nor size of body, no awkwardness nor ungainliness, which puts good golf beyond reach. There are good golfers with spectacles, with one eye, with one leg, even with one arm. In golf, while there is life there is hope.”
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“Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.”
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“And in another year everything will be different yet again. It is always like that, and always will be; you are forever standing on the brink, in a place where you cannot see ahead; there is nothing of which to be certain except what lies behind. This should be terrifying, but somehow it is not.”
Source : Penelope Lively (2007). “Consequences”, p.39, Penguin
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“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes...”
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“It's very important to understand that climate change is not just another issue in this complicated world of proliferating issues. Climate change is THE issue which, unchecked, will swamp all other issues.”
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“The hardest work in the world is being out of work.”
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“And did I pass?" The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left the younger woman said, "You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.”
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“The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.”
