Charlie Parker (Yardbird and Bird) Quotes
Ever since I've ever heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise - as clean as possible, anyway, and more or less tuned to people. Something they could understand, something that was beautiful, you know?Charlie Parker
Quotes to Explore
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It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.
Jack Ma -
The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
Edmund Phelps -
I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
Babette March -
As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a lot of stereotypes and a lot of one-note characters, especially in comedy.
Randall Park -
I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
Cara Delevingne -
I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
Sally Field
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Unfortunately, we have seen terrorist groups use social media to spread hateful propaganda, to recruit members, and to incite violence with alarming effectiveness.
Ted Deutch -
Fortunately, the music from the first record really connected with people, and I was really proud of that.
Sam Hunt -
And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
Karl Pilkington -
I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
Queen Latifah -
When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
Malin Akerman -
I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
Iris DeMent
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
Harlan Coben -
I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
Laura San Giacomo -
Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
Patricia Riggen -
Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.
Dale Archer -
One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
Mallory Ortberg
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Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.
Dan Farmer -
If you've ever done something you love and go do something you like, it's like chewing on sawdust.
Kimbal Musk -
The first time I played in front of a live audience, I realised I wanted to be a musician. I was about four years old and had always liked music.
Lewis Capaldi -
I don't think men approach me for intellectual conversation.
Megan Fox -
Who is king in the world of the blind when there isn't even a one eyed man?
John Kenneth Galbraith -
Ever since I've ever heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise - as clean as possible, anyway, and more or less tuned to people. Something they could understand, something that was beautiful, you know?
Charlie Parker