Charlie Parker (Yardbird and Bird) Quotes

Tiger had the advantage of high school, college, and a father who knew golf. I was self-taught. Blacks really won't play golf in great numbers until some of these basketball and football stars buy some golf courses where blacks can play.

Charlie Parker

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• I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

  

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• Self-doubt kills talent.

  

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• I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.

  

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• The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.

  

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• I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.

  

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• The starting point of all achievement is desire.

  

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• Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

  

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• For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.

  

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• You never get every job you want.

  

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• I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.

  

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• In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

  

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• Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.

  

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• The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

  

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• Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.

  

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• One should know their body types well to experiment with trends.

  

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• I want to, at the end of the day, be able to say, 'I am a runner.'

  

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• When we fall in love, we feel that this person is ours and we are theirs by our mutual volition, and we know they could leave - we know that because they are free, and their freedom is part of the thrill.

  

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• A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.

  

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• By the life we live through the grace of Christ, the character is formed. The original loveliness begins to be restored to the soul. The attributes of the character of Christ are imparted, and the image of the Divine begins to shine forth.

  

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• If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.

  

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• Tiger had the advantage of high school, college, and a father who knew golf. I was self-taught. Blacks really won't play golf in great numbers until some of these basketball and football stars buy some golf courses where blacks can play.

  

  Charlie Parker
  • Great
  • School
  • High