Dave Brubeck Quotes
What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.
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When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
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Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
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In general, I tend to laugh too much. I always try to tell myself not to, but I think that's just part of getting through the job. It's not rocket science. I want to have a good time!
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It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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I'm so fascinated by YouTube culture. I have no idea how it's working, but more and more people are becoming Internet famous, and it is because it allows you to have an atmosphere in which you feel comfortable to be yourself, which you might not get otherwise.
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I grew up in Evanston and lived in Chicago for a long time, in Old Town and Wrigleyville. I did three films when I was in high school. The first was 'Class,' with Rob Lowe. I had a supporting role in that.
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Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.
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What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.
