Charlie Parker (Yardbird and Bird) Quotes
I put quite a bit of study into the horn, that's true. In fact, the neighbors threatened to ask my mother to move once, you know.
Quotes to Explore
-
Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
-
The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
-
I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
-
You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.
-
I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
-
What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
-
It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
-
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
-
We may define therapy as a search for value.
-
The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
-
I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
-
It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
-
I'm really interested in playing my age.
-
People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
-
I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
-
Little boys have amazing minds.
-
When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.
-
Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
-
There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond our political control. We are colonized with pens and papers and millions of little digital bursts transferring billions of dollars all over the globe in the blink of an eye.
-
'I'll put a word in for you, Sharpe, because a man shouldn't be disciplined for killing the enemy, but I don't suppose my help will do you any good.'
-
Don't ever fret over married children; they will take care of themselves.
-
I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read.
-
I put quite a bit of study into the horn, that's true. In fact, the neighbors threatened to ask my mother to move once, you know.
