#formed

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country. ↗

— Cy Coleman

#country #i #into #jazz #over

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#been #fiercest #firmest #flame #formed

Every time I went out there I performed the best that I could and it was time to step back and clear my mind. ↗

— Jimmy Connors

#best #clear #could #every #every time

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#conscious #detached #feelings #impossible #informed

I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#beliefs #comfortable #extremely #feel #i

Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed. ↗

— Chris Ware

#amount #art #art forms #built #comes

South Australia has transformed. There has been a range of changes to our economy over the past 10 years in which we have genuinely set ourselves up for the future. I think we have to start behaving like that's real and project a quiet confidence in the future of our state. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#been #behaving #changes #confidence #economy

So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#alabama #biologically #evolution #freshman #freshman year

I feel very confident that that information should be sufficient for the members of the Senate to make an informed decision about John Roberts' qualifications. ↗

— Alberto Gonzales

#confident #decision #feel #i #i feel

Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics. ↗

— Cuba Gooding, Jr.

#back #back up #before #break #ceremony