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It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big Band' completed in 2005. It measures 13 feet x 9 feet. It has 18 nearly life size recognizable portraits of the biggest jazz stars that I knew and saw perform in the 1950s, '60s, '70s, '80s and includes Wynton Marsalis. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#been #big #big band #biggest #completed

Once upon a time she had liked to dance. When she had been about the same age as the little brunette out there who kept lifting her dress up over her head. Now that was living. Just lift your dress if you wanted to get down and don't worry what anyone thought. ↗

— Erin McCarthy

#dance #humor #inspirational #living #age

Don't cry my son Don't cry, because life is a redeemed fight Life is a fight that will demean the weak person And will always exalt the strong ones ↗

— Gonçalves Dias

#inspirational-attitude #values-in-life #attitude

We're all stories, in the end. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#doctor-who #eleven #steven-moffat #doctor-who

The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence. ↗

— Bill Nelson

#defeat #having #intelligence #only #stealth

Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over. ↗

— Byron Nelson

#arnold palmer #call #eisenhower #faces #i

Thriving. That's fighting... Surviving is barely getting by. ↗

— Jillian Michaels

#surviving #thriving #inspirational

Lance Armstrong is the guy that I would put up there as one of my heroes. He's done something that no one else has done and when you put into it what he overcame, it's absolutely unbelievable. ↗

— Craig T. Nelson

#armstrong #done #else #guy #heroes

Where ever the Mavericks are today, we owe it to Michael Finley. He was the one guy who stayed when we were a terrible team. He stayed and fought the fight. ↗

— Don Nelson

#fight #finley #fought #guy #mavericks

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture. ↗

— Gaylord Nelson

#culture #environmental #environmental issue #ethic #important