Charlie Byrd Quotes
That jam was so much fun that by the end of the tour, we just jammed on all of the songs.
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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I think it's nice to do work that is vaguely compromising to your health because it means you really care about it.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
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Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.
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Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
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I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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I think it's never too late to learn - or it's a lesson that's good to continue learning - that you need to treat everyone on a set with respect.
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I do not look at myself every morning and think: 'Oh, my gosh, I am so perfect, so beautiful, so talented.' No, I like to make fun of myself.
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Some of the aspects of my speaking style are inherited and come naturally to me. I didn't take classes, and I didn't do anything to hone my skills.
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I try to relish each of the roles I play in life. If I'm cooking dinner for the kids, I throw on my polka-dotted apron. I might don a smart blazer if I am doing a work presentation. If I play a rock show, there may indeed be glitter and fishnets involved. It's my way of saying, 'Thank you, I am glad to be here.'
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That jam was so much fun that by the end of the tour, we just jammed on all of the songs.
