Charlie Parker (Yardbird and Bird) Quotes
I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazine from the candy store. I would jump out of bed and grab it from her. Then I'd rip the front cover right off and tape it to my bedroom wall.
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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
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If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
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At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.
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Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.
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Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
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I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city.
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My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.
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Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait for harvest, the postponement of gratification has been the basis of a higher standard of living and of civilization.
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Preach as if you had seen heaven and its celestial inhabitants, and had hovered over the bottomless pit, and beheld the tortures, and heard the groans of the damned.
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To receive more, we must give out what we receive. . . . For it is by giving that we set in operation the unfailing law of measure for measure. With no thought of receiving, it is impossible to avoid receiving, for the abundance you have given is returned to you in fulfillment of the law.
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People talk as if grief were just a feeling -- as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again and again on familiar roads and being brought up short by the grim frontier post that now blocks them.
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We value task accomplishment over relationship building and either are not aware of this cultural bias or, worse, don’t care and don’t want to be bothered with it.
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I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.
