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JOE NORTH I pushed very hard for him to take the job. He was with me as an assistant for a few years prior and...
JOE NORTH All the bad publicity they brought down on us, yes, it came, and yes, it hurt us—for a day. That�...
CLAIRE NORTH I don't think any responsible performer would go on stage high. If he convinced himself he is better...
OLIVER I don't try to analyze my style now or I might lose it. Right now it's automatic and I don't want to...
OLIVER I think some entertainers have been very irresponsible in their part in making drug use a fad among ...
OLIVER I wouldn't say I'm happy, but I look at things in a soft way. I try to convey more personal interact...
OLIVER My job is to entertain people by playing my music well. You shouldn't really be upset because people...
OLIVER I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. T...
OLIVER Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it ...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. Wh...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibili...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it ...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD