Charlie Haden Quotes
People ask me how could I go from country to jazz. It's been a natural convergence for me.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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After being nearly eradicated from the lower 48 states by the 1960s, bald eagles were re-introduced to the Adirondacks in the 1980s, and I'm proud to report the view from my home indicates they are flourishing in upstate New York.
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I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn't otherwise have. So I'm very creatively ambitious, and I just hope people notice it; that's all I want.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.
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Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
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In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic.
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Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.
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People want you to fail.
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I have always loved animals and groomed friends' horses as a child. I think I may have even ridden the odd seaside donkey in my early years.
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Just being famous feels cheap to me.
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All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
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I like change, and I like being in the middle of change.
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To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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People ask me how could I go from country to jazz. It's been a natural convergence for me.
