Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

Mark Twain

The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.

Jodi Picoult

In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.

Bob Ney

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Albert Einstein

On Alexander Lukashenko: I wish luck to you and your nation that loves you as the election results we can see testify (as quoted in Results of the official visit of Silvio Berlusconi to Belarus, 1 Dec. 2009, from belarus.by, the official website of the Republic of Belarus

Silvio Berlusconi

You never know what you can do until you try.

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Hazing is an extraordinary activity that, when it occurs often enough, becomes perversely ordinary as those who engage in it grow desensitized to its inhumanity.

Hank Nuwer, Wrongs of Passage

It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books. I was very inspired by the book and this spirit of Dean Moriarty and how envious we all are of somebody who can be that carefree.

Garrett Hedlund

The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.

Stephen Hawking

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

C. Archie Danielson

Bring the past, but only if you can build from it.

Dominico Scarlatti

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities

Ralph Waldo Emerson