Bernie Worrell Quotes
I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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When an audience is affected in a way that I've seen with some people, it's so inspiring to me an actor. You know that you're on the right track and you're doing work that can affect people. When that goes hand-in-hand with important issues that we're still living with, and we will be for a long time, sadly, it's so confirming of everything.
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Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
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I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
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Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
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I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.
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Pretend was a big part of my childhood.
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In a sense, the searches for both magnetic monopoles and gravity waves are very similar. But, theoretically, gravity waves are more solid.
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The biggest difference with Twitter and writing long form is you're part of a virtual community where you know people, or think you know them, through their links.
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I suppose that if your name is Freud, it is better to be related to Sigmund than not. It must be frustrating to have to keep denying family connection.
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You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.
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I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.
