Chick Corea Quotes
You get a zero at the end of your age number, and you get some extra attention. That's what I found out.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.
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I think that what happens for many Christians is, they accept their particular faith, they accept it to be true, and they stop examining it. Consequently, because it's already accepted to be true, they don't examine other people's faiths... That, I think, is not healthy for a person of any faith.
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I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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I see myself as extremely lucky.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.
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Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.
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If you're not cheating, you're not trying.
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When you start playing tennis, you don't imagine there's a whole bureaucracy behind the tournaments and all of that. You just think about winning the cups.
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Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.
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If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
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I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.
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I want to give back. I want to do all the things that will make me feel fulfilled. But whenever I do those things, people think it's a press stunt or something.
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There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning.
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Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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You get a zero at the end of your age number, and you get some extra attention. That's what I found out.
