Charlie Parker (Yardbird and Bird) Quotes
Some guys said 'Here's bop!' Wham! They said, 'Here's something we can make money on!' Wham! 'Here's a comedian!' Wham! Here's a guy who talks funny talk!'Charlie Parker
Quotes to Explore
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
Karen Mills -
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
Harold Pinter -
I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.
Lamorne Morris -
I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
Lalaine Vergara-Paras -
Hamas has effectively kidnapped Gaza. Instead of turning it into the Singapore of the Middle East that was promised, they have turned it into a fortress of terror.
Naftali Bennett -
I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.
Pablo Sandoval
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
Caitlyn Jenner -
The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.
Adam Davidson -
I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
Victor Cruz -
I can only control what I can control.
Ira Glass -
I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
Adam Pascal -
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Samuel Butler
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
Ian Hislop -
I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.
Kate Jackson -
I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.
Taylor Schilling -
My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
Vikram Chatwal -
I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
Karl Malone -
Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.
Tamara Tunie
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Weight lifting is the easiest part of my day.
Melanie Roach -
Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.
Peter Zumthor -
The value of a story like 'Deadline' is kids get to look at death at the perfect distance. They can put the book down. They can experience the story, rub up against it, but it's not real life.
Chris Crutcher -
In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyrics and things people have said to me that I've written down and shoved in my pocket, I also say the name of every person I've ever known who's passed on.
Mandy Patinkin -
Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
John Eldredge -
Some guys said 'Here's bop!' Wham! They said, 'Here's something we can make money on!' Wham! 'Here's a comedian!' Wham! Here's a guy who talks funny talk!'
Charlie Parker