“He writes the kind of music you whistle on the way into the theater.”
Oscar Levant (1906–1972) American comedian, composer, pianist and actor
On Sigmund Romberg, as quoted in Dancing in the Dark (1974) by Howard Dietz, p. 61
“I hate the way he writes. I kind of love the way he lives, though.”
On writer Jack Kerouac
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Sarah Zettel (1966) American writer
Source: Bitter Angels (2009), Chapter 1 (p. 9)
Karl Popper book The Open Society and Its Enemies
Vol. 2, Ch. 24 "Oracular Philosophy and the Revolt against Reason"
The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945)
Context: I do not overlook the fact that there are irrationalists who love mankind, and that not all forms of irrationalism engender criminality. But I hold that he who teaches that not reason but love should rule opens up the way for those who rule by hate. (Socrates, I believe, saw something of this when he suggested that mistrust or hatred of argument is related to mistrust or hatred of man).
Miles Davis (1926–1991) American jazz musician
In Playboy to Alex Haley (1962); also in [Milestones: The music and times of Miles Davis since 1960, Jack, Chambers, Beech Tree Books, 1983, 9780688046460, 209], [The Playboy Interviews, Alex, Haley, Murray, Fisher, Ballantine, 1993, 9780345383006, 15], [The Miles Davis companion: four decades of commentary, Gary, Carner, Gary, Carner, Schirmer Books, 1996, 9780028646121, 19], and in [Miles Davis and American Culture, Missouri Historical Society Press Series, Gerald Lyn, Early, Missouri History Museum, 2001, 9781883982386, 205]
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“I loved Barack just the way he was.”
Michelle Obama (1964) lawyer, writer, wife of Barack Obama and former First Lady of the United States
2010s, Democratic National Convention speech (2012)
Alexander Ovechkin (1985) Russian ice hockey player
Sergei Fedorov, interview in Jill Painter (November 20, 2008) Los Angeles Daily News.
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Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
Travis Parker, Chapter 16, p. 228
2000s, The Choice (2007)
Miles Davis (1926–1991) American jazz musician
In the Jazz Review with Nat Hentoff (1958); also in , and in many other books https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=%22play+anything+on+a+horn%22+miles+davis<br>On Louis Armstrong in a Playboy magazine interview. <br class="br">1950s