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At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

I'm kind of a recluse.

I was playing organ at a silent movie house at Harlem and they'd be showing some death scene on the screen. Likely as not, I'd grab a bottle and start swingin' out on 'Squeeze Me' or 'Royal Garden Blues'. The managers complained but, heck, they couldn't stop me!

A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not, of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks, or in any way really raise them above the servants they employ, who are quite aware of this fact, and that the possession of wealth is literally the only superiority their employers have over them.

The right use of color can make any composition work.

Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.

It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.

People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women.

So much of teaching is sharing. Learning results in sharing, sharing results in change, change is learning. The only other job with so much sharing is parenting. That's probably why the two are so often confused. You can't test what sort of teacher someone will be, because testing what someone knows isn't the same as what someone is able to share.

The easiest programs to use are those which demand the least new learning from the user

Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.

Oh, I wish I lived in a caravan!’ said Jimmy longingly. ‘How lovely it must be to live in a house that has wheels and can go away down the lanes and through the towns, and stand still in fields at night!

Seize the moment and dont squander it. Cause you never know when it all could be over.

Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.

You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.

I want the part of you that you refuse to give.

I'm loud and I'm vulgar, and I wear the pants in the house because somebody's got to, but I am not a monster. I'm not.

Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond the prose of cause and effect.

Every life is its own excuse for being.

You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.

Without courage, all other virtues are useless.

I am still confused because I still don't know who my father is. And so who is my mother? The feeling is still there.

I've always accepted applause as making me feel worthwhile. I hope I die being applauded. Just put a chaise longue under me and let me go.

I don't have to have the biggest house or the biggest car or the longest mink, but quality of life is really glamorous.

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.