"I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel."

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"I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel."

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"Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing."

Tennessee Williams, American Dramatist

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"There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"So foul and fair a day I have not seen."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good."

Michael Graves, American Architect

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"Whenever I get a free day, I drive up to some part of California that looks promising on the map."

Kent McCord, American Actor

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"Every dog has his day, unless he loses his tail, then he has a weak-end."

June Carter, American Musician

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"Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority."

William Jennings Bryan, American Lawyer

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"Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music."

Music

"I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important."

Music

"I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second."

Love

"From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman."

Beginning

"I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die."

People

"Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world."

Life

"I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going."

Music

"There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were."

People

"When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist."

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"This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet."

Kiss