I didn’t go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don’t need no more schoolin’. You need to get out in the water and swim.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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I didn’t go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don’t need no more schoolin’. You need to get out in the water and swim.
American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic.
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
I’ll not listen to reason… reason always means what someone else has got to say.
We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It’s truly unbelievable.
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front.
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.
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