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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000026.txt from 2004/04

From: Jennifer I.Paull <info@-----.com>
Subj: [DR-L] ] RE: Quote of the Day
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 01:54:46 -0400

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On Monday, April 5, 2004, at 06:06 am, Lacy, Edwin wrote:

> <<<"Eighty percent of success is showing up."
>
> -Woody Allen (1935) American film writer, director, actor and =20
> producer>>>
>
> Interesting. In my studio, I have prominently posted a sign with a =20=

> quote from former catcher and manager of the New York Yankees, Yogi =20=

> Berra:
>
> "Ninety five percent of everything is just showing up."
>
> I guess we could debate the actual percentages, but they seem to make =20=

> the same point. I would speculate that Woody Allen might be =20
> paraphrasing Yogi Berra, rather than the reverse.

Hello Ed,

And Cathy Berberian (who once translated a Woody Allen script) always
said that singing was 90% intelligence and 10% voice.
>
> BTW, I have to explain to my students the distinction between Yogi =20
> Berra and Yogi Bear.

I bet!

One wonders which of these eggs came before which of these chickens,
but I think they all have a very valid point!

Donald Fagen sang the following in =91Your Gold Teeth', a song
recording by Steely Dan in the 1970=92s.

Tobacco they grow in Peking
In the Year of the Locust you'll see a sad thing
Even Cathy Berberian knows there's one roulade she can't sing

He was wrong!

Intelligence, INDEED!
>
> Ed Lacy
>
>

Jennifer

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Jennifer I. Paull, Ph.D.
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Amoris International
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