#ate

Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ↗

— Mary Lou Williams

#churches #coming #dances #dates #dollar

When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano player and let's get started.' ↗

— Mary Lou Williams

#doing #first #get #here #kid

If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated. ↗

— Paul Williams

#am #being #checkmate #defeated #fact

I want to thank all my fans, teammates, coaches and supporters for the strength they've given me to overcome so much. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#fans #given #i #me #much

Towards the end of the Lord Chamberlain's era, when his hold was being loosened, private prosecutions began to happen. A member of staff at the Royal Court ordered to stop the play, and the police were brought in. ↗

— Timothy West

#being #brought #chamberlain #court #end

For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#i #i believe #i believe that #jew #must

I've had more people in my life take their lives than... I think it's out of proportion with most people. I think a lot of them gravitate towards me because of the music. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#gravitate #had #i #i think #life

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#chief #commander #first #greatest #legislator

I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He's always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#also #always #being #cyberspace #i

Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought. ↗

— Simon Wiesenthal

#does #drought #even #greatest #like