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When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my

father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?'
Wynton Marsalis

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
E. O. Wilson

And I think that if I were a for real celebrity that was recognizable everywhere, I'd just crawl under a rock and you know, have someone run over the rock with a car, or something.
Steve Burns

In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.
William Odom

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.
Marilyn Hacker

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Aldous Huxley

When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away.
Stewart Brand

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
Jesse Jackson

Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
Aaron Eckhart

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