#even

I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even for the first years that white people played banjo they would put on blackface. ↗

— Bela Fleck

#banjo #came #even #first #i

Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it. ↗

— Tom Flynn

#accepting #cold #even #gloriously #human

I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#between #even #fountain #fountain pen #i

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#even #i #shakespeare #tragedy #trained

Even within the band, if I cannot manage to persuade the members of what I see to be the next course of action, how do you expect the group to deal with the expectations of thousands of people. It is not possible. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#band #cannot #course #deal #even

When I was older and I first started working, I was obsessed with buying my first Chanel jacket. I saved up my hard-earned money, went to Barneys, and bought a little black Chanel jacket. It saw many, many job interviews and many, many events. I'm not fitting into it lately, but I still have it. ↗

— Nina Garcia

#bought #buying #chanel #events #first

I'm curious about everything. Even subjects that don't interest me. ↗

— Alex Trebek

#curious #even #everything #i #interest

He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day. ↗

— Leopold Trepper

#day #even #eyes #full #his

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#courage #got #had #i #journals

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#government #must #neutrality #observe #strong