Dave Brubeck Quotes
My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.
Quotes to Explore
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Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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My baby is amazing; even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him! He's a big, beautiful boy. He's great.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
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What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.
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Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I can do the tricks and I can skate. I have great skating skills and artistry and well-choreographed programs. For me, the biggest obstacle is just bringing it all together.
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It can't be stressed enough that in order to produce great graphics, you have to have a good product and a good client capable of making decisions.
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When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philosophy, I loved it.
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It's long been my dream to have myself declared incompetent so I could just practice all day, and blog, and not have to take care of any normal life things.
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My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.
