Chick Corea Quotes
The title 'Now He Sings, Now He Sobs' comes from 'I Ching,' an ancient Chinese book that I was into in the '60s when I was studying different philosophies and religions.
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.
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My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.
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Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
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One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
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My family is a kaleidoscope... My family is like that. We're all different colors, like a prism. When we have light shine and stuff, we're beautiful. When it's dark, nothing shines, and it's a rock.
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Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.
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It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
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I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
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Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
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I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.
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I'm a student of comedy in general, so I've always loved Billy Crystal. But I'm a different type of showman. I'm a clown and a jester.
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Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism.
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Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.
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Chinese people love compromise. If you say to them, 'This room is too dark, we must have a window made,' they will all oppose you. But if you say, 'Let's take off the roof,' they will compromise with you and say 'Let's have a window.'
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The last thing, and the only one that you cannot physically train for, is the psychological preparation.
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I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away from anything anyone would want to read. Creating that way seems to generate the most interesting material for me to work with, though.
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My uncle was skipper on the old Claymore sailing out from Oban to the Inner Hebrides. My father worked for MacBraynes all his life, on freight boats and then on ferries crossing to Skye, Barra, Uist, the small isles and Iona.
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The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.
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The title 'Now He Sings, Now He Sobs' comes from 'I Ching,' an ancient Chinese book that I was into in the '60s when I was studying different philosophies and religions.
