
Better Place to Be
Song lyrics, Sniper and Other Love Songs (1972)
Better Place to Be
Song lyrics, Sniper and Other Love Songs (1972)
“I said, who the hell wants to speak about politics when I'm in front of the boy scouts, right?”
2010s, 2017, July, 2017 National Scout Jamboree (July 24, 2017)
“You're thinking I'm a hopelessly romantic idiot.
And you know what?
You're right.”
Source: What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know
The Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program Oral History Interview http://americanhistory.si.edu/comphist/sj1.html, Advice for Future Entrepreneurs (20 April 1995)
1990s
Context: I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. It is so hard. You put so much of your life into this thing. There are such rough moments in time that I think most people give up. I don't blame them. Its really tough and it consumes your life. If you've got a family and you're in the early days of a company, I can't imagine how one could do it. I'm sure its been done but its rough. Its pretty much an eighteen hour day job, seven days a week for awhile. Unless you have a lot of passion about this, you're not going to survive. You're going to give it up. So you've got to have an idea, or a problem or a wrong that you want to right that you're passionate about otherwise you're not going to have the perseverance to stick it through. I think that's half the battle right there.
“Bonnie-Jill Laflin: Strong Vegan Woman, NBA,” video interview with PETA (25 July 2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IT0K1OpYCo&t=3s.
I mean, this is what you say. "I ain't left nothing in Africa," that's what you say. Why, you left your mind in Africa.
Malcolm X Speaks (1965)