#iri

It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter. ↗

— Abbey Lincoln

#armstrong #benny #carter #duke #duke ellington

Management don't really have any problem at all with firing people. It's a powerful idea that, If I'm not happy, I'll quit. I'll try something else! ↗

— Ron Livingston

#else #firing #happy #i #idea

The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#cause #fact #forget #may #preferable

The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#deal #did #faults #fervent #great

I am attracting a new audience now, one that is more open and more spiritually inclined. ↗

— Kenny Loggins

#attracting #audience #i #i am #inclined

You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#both #bubbles #constantly #each #egg

Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

#indispensable #like #needs #restitution #reversion

In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#black #charge #discussions #easily #faculty

I tried to copy some of his mannerisms at first but it didn't work. And then I just let the spirit of the character grow in me and it just took its rightful place. I started to speak the lines and it felt right. ↗

— Derek Luke

#copy #felt #first #grow #his

As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my voice for that purpose. ↗

— Sinead O'Connor

#business #concerned #far #i #making