I think most people come toward things assuming everybody is going to be a good person. When you have an interaction where it doesn't go that way, it's very problematic and interesting and weird.
Failure is impossible.
If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. . . . Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less
We shall some day be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses always were hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon today has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.
Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
There never seems to be any difficulty in stretching the laws and the constitution to fit any kind of a political deal, but when it is proposed to make some concession to women they loom up like an unscalable wall.
You should believe in your talent and potential. Never lose hope.
I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
Miles Davis came in a couple of days and said, "Oh, man, I love that. Keep going. " So he said, "Let me know when you need trumpet. " And he came in, and he was sitting there, and I was very intimidated, because now he's going to play the trumpet on something that I wrote. " He starts to play, and I go, "That's not right, but I don't know how to tell him it's not right. " Finally he goes, "When are you going to tell me what to do?" He said, "This is your music. I know you know how it's supposed to sound. Stop fooling around. We don't have time. "
Guys don't like girls that throw themselves at them. That's something that I've learned.