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Quote Left Allen has been playing some great basketball for us and Chris is playing like he did a few seasons ago. We need to keep picking up wins if we're going to be a playoff team. Quote Right
Quote Left Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but it's good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement. Quote Right
Quote Left For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy. Quote Right
Quote Left Black as the devil, Hot as hell, Pure as an angel, Sweet as love. Quote Right
Quote Left A writer who writes, I am alone... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes. Quote Right
Quote Left Maurice Oh yeah, I started out mopping the floor just like you guys. Then I moved up to washing lettuces. Now, I'm working the fat fryer. Pretty soon I'll make assistant manager, and that's when the big bucks start rolling in. Quote Right
Quote Left Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it. Quote Right
Quote Left CHRIS What's art, Holling Is a Davinci art Dada art If you wrap up the whole Reichstag in toilet paper, is that art HOLLING Well, I can't give you a complete definition, but I think it would be something Maurice would be willing to give good money for. CHRIS Yeah, well, you're starting to scare me cause if that's art, then I got to get a whole new gig. Quote Right
Quote Left There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act. We surrender to sleep, but in the way that the master entrusts himself to the slave who serves him. Quote Right
Quote Left We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us. Quote Right
Quote Left When you see Kyle shooting the ball the way he's capable of shooting the ball, and giving Andre more offensive opportunities, and even Sam, I think we're a more dangerous team that way. Quote Right
Quote Left Once again, Piazza is an attractive, nice guy. The sex-symbol stuff does count with women. Quote Right
Quote Left The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. Quote Right
Quote Left Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud. Quote Right
Quote Left Too much sensibility creates unhappiness too much insensibility leads to crime. Quote Right
Quote Left We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us. Quote Right
Quote Left A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars. Quote Right
Quote Left Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold. Quote Right
Quote Left We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained. Quote Right
Quote Left Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness. Quote Right
Quote Left France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world ... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history. Quote Right
Quote Left As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs. Quote Right
Quote Left A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. Quote Right
Quote Left A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. Quote Right
Quote Left The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows. Quote Right
Quote Left As soon as we started programming, we found out to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs. Quote Right
Quote Left Nobody will ever take Maurice's place, and he'll go on with us and he'll go on our music. He'll go on with us as the Bee Gees, and Maurice will always be with us. Quote Right
Quote Left Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows. Quote Right
Quote Left Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number. Quote Right
Quote Left Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives. Quote Right
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