Charlie Parker (Yardbird and Bird) Quotes

One time, when I was in my teens, jamming in a Kansas City club, I was doing all right until I tried doing double tempo on 'Body and Soul.' Everybody fell out laughing. I went home and cried and didn't want to play again for three months.

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• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

  Gary Lucas
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• We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.

  

  Ian Axel
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• We all present versions of ourselves. The person you are at work is not the same person you are at home. The face we present in our most intimate relationships is not the face we present to the world.

  

  Val McDermid
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• Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.

  

  Zhang Yimou
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• Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
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• We own a shopping center in Temecula that is occupied and making money. In Florida, I am doing a 500-home subdivision just north of Eglin Air Force Base.

  

  Wayne Rogers
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• Julia Child wasn't afraid to have fun. She made fantastic food but knew how to have a good time and not be too stuck up about the kitchen space.

  

  Nadia Giosia
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• I started to travel like this at the age of 15 so for me, it's normal. Some days you get tired and you feel, 'I want to stay at home a little bit more,' but it's only the moment.

  

  Rafael Nadal
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• I can't really see myself as an artist. Now, to step out here and there, do it when I feel like it, that's a possibility. But for me to be a full-fledged, full-time artist in the industry, I don't think so.

  

  T.I.
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• I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
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• I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.

  

  Haley Reinhart
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  • Soul

• I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.

  

  Rachel Boston
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• Home is the nicest word there is.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
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• There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.

  

  Vince Lombardi
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• If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.

  

  Vin Diesel
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• My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.

  

  Fran Drescher
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• I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.

  

  Sally Field
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• Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.

  

  Dalai Lama
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• 'Shortly Thereafter' chronicles all the aspects of an Afghanistan deployment, from the terrors of the unknown that await before leaving, to the perverse thrills and adrenaline rushes found in combat, to the return home to a land and a people now more foreign than the war itself was.

  

  Matt Gallagher
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  • War

• Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
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• A large and growing body of academic research suggests there are market anomalies that can be exploited to beat a strict index approach. Some of that research has been recognized with Nobels in economic science - William F. Sharpe in 1990 and Eugene F. Fama in 2013.

  

  James B. Stewart
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• It's been 80 years since the Senate has confirmed a Supreme Court nominee who was nominated during an election. And particularly when the court hangs in the balance, it makes no sense whatsoever to give Barack Obama the power to jam through a judge in the final election year.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight through to the bone, I thought my dad was going to pass out. It left a scar that I still have now.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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  • Dad
  • Thought

• One time, when I was in my teens, jamming in a Kansas City club, I was doing all right until I tried doing double tempo on 'Body and Soul.' Everybody fell out laughing. I went home and cried and didn't want to play again for three months.

  

  Charlie Parker
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