Chet Baker Quotes
In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off to the side. People don't listen.
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
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A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year.
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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It's as important to sell yourselves as much as the service. The business model's going to change 50 times, and the market's going to change, but you need to convince that investor that you are smart enough and excited enough about the opportunity that you'll figure it out.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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The question is not whether but how do the actions of a given gene influence some interesting aspect of behavior.
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People don't have a constitutional right to leave loaded guns lying around. And if they choose to do so - and a kid gets shot and killed because of it - it's not an accident. It's negligent homicide.
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America has become so tense and nervous it has been years since I have seen anyone sleep in church - and that is a sad situation.
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In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off to the side. People don't listen.
