Minding Your Own Media

Donna Summer… Media Duplication NYC completed promo copies for Donna Summer’s new dance release “Stamp Your Feet”. Donna Summer is an internationally known singer-songwriter whose music has earned five Grammy Awards, three consecutive number one platinum albums (she is the only artist, male or female, ever to have accomplished this), eleven gold albums, four number one singles, two platinum singles, and twelve gold singles. Considered the voice that ignited the disco generation, she has been an enormously popular and enduring performer and recording artist for more than a quarter of a century.Donna Summer was born on New Year’s Eve in Boston. Her childhood was filled with music. Inspired by Mahalia Jackson, she began singing in church choirs at the age of ten. A few years later she joined a Boston rock group, and by the end of the 1960s she was living the life of an artist in New York City’s Greenwich Village.Soon after, Donna left the United States to join the German cast of Hair. She was still in her teens, a shy, ordinary girl who was suddenly feeling the jolt of the sexual revolution. She lived in Germany for seven and a half years, modeling, acting, falling in love, getting married, and giving birth to a daughter. She met a producer named Giorgio Moroder, and together they created a song called “Love To Love You Baby.” It became one of the world’s premier disco hits.

Here is a quote by the great; some would say the greatest American writer, Samuel L. Clemens or better known as “Mark Twain”

“The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.”

Mark Twain
American humorist, novelist, short story author, & all around wit (1835 - 1910)

“He who will not economize will have to agonize.”

Confucius

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

Mark Twain
American humorist, novelist, short story author, & all around wit (1835 - 1910)

Albert Einstein, old E=MC2 was quite a quotable guy. And not for nothing but his brain, when they got around to actually examining it and putting it in a jar was smaller than the average human brain. Go figure.

Anyway, smaller brain or not here’s a quote of his that I think
hits the mark.

“I never think of the future, it comes soon enough.”

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

Bill Cosby is a very famous comedian who has managed the difficult task of transending racial boundries in his comedy. The topic of race is distinctly absence from his work over the years. While many comics today use the expanding freedom of the media to explore controversial material, racial and otherwise, Cosby made his reputation with humorous recollections of his childhood. As he himself once said “A white person listens to my act and he laughs and he thinks, ‘Yeah, that’s the way I see it too.’ Okay. He’s white. I’m Negro. And we both see things the same way. That must mean that we are alike…So I figure I’m doing as much for good race relations as the next guy.”

Mr. Cosby is a very quotable person and this is one quote from Bill Cosby that I have taken to heart. If more people followed this bit of wisdom; the world we all live in would be better off.

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”

Bill Cosby

“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.”

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) 

“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

“It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.”

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)