Charlie Parker (Yardbird and Bird) Quotes
I became bitter, hard, cold. I was always on a panic - couldn't buy clothes or a good place to live.
Quotes to Explore
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.
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At one time or another, we have all faced the temptation to disconnect by giving someone the silent treatment. After being married to Joel for more than twenty-one years, I have learned that is not the best way to handle a disagreement.
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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.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.
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Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.
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We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
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Effort makes you. You will regret someday if you don’t do your best now. Don’t think it’s too late but keep working on it. It may take time, but there’s nothing that gets worse due to practising. So practise. You may get depressed, but its evidence that you are doing good.
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Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.
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Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America.
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I think - I’ll have my staff get to you. It’s condominiums where - I’ll have them get to you.
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I became bitter, hard, cold. I was always on a panic - couldn't buy clothes or a good place to live.
