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I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory. ↗

— Terry Gross

#content #fact #faulty #getting #guests

Even though other people wrote my songs I put my stamp on them. I have a connection, but there is no truer connection than an artists and their own song. ↗

— Justin Guarini

#connection #even #i #other #own

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. ↗

— S. I. Hayakawa

#life #live #lives #many #more

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue. ↗

— Benjamin Haydon

#art #definition #imperfect #inasmuch #mere

I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South. ↗

— Isaac Hayes

#african #drum #first #go #grew

To all the kids out there: Follow your dream. Believe in your dream. Because dreams do come true. ↗

— Rickey Henderson

#believe #come #dream #dreams #follow

Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true. ↗

— Walter Hill

#before #good #movie #once #probably

An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#awful #basically #college #come #equal

In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure. ↗

— King Hussein I

#among #began #believer #cognizant #departure

True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#composure #deadline #endowed #enough #fair