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.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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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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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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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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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 would put myself towards left of center.
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The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one.
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My father had very little formal education.
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My aim is for every song to have a purpose - for you to be able to say, 'This song is about this.' But love and heartbreak are some of the most abstract subjects.
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I love doing heightened reality stuff, and having fun with the characters I play, especially in a kind of darker way, which I don't get to do in 'Primeval' at all.
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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.
