Dave Brubeck Quotes
I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a lot more seriously - especially the Ten Commandments - and wondering how 'Thou shalt not kill' could be so absolutely ignored. It took me until I was in my 40s to write what I was thinking as a young soldier.
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
Gary Numan
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
Patricia Millett
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I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.
Ike Barinholtz
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
Mahershala Ali
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I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.
Gail Carson Levine
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
R. L. Stine
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
Patricia Clarkson
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It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.
Owen Wilson
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
Nadine Gordimer
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
Bear Bryant
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A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.
Venus Williams
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I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
Tea Leoni
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I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
Quincy Jones
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
Natalia Kills
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
Ja Rule
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
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The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.
Valerie Jarrett
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I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.
Anton Zaslavski
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Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful.
Martin Seligman
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I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.
Tana French
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Money is always the least of the problems. It is finding the right business or growing the right business. You can't do that without the right people.
Christoffel Wiese
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As a lad growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, I played both Gaelic football and soccer and loved them both.
Martin McGuinness
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The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems that we cannot solve at the same level at which we have created them.... We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humankind is to survive.
Albert Einstein
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I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a lot more seriously - especially the Ten Commandments - and wondering how 'Thou shalt not kill' could be so absolutely ignored. It took me until I was in my 40s to write what I was thinking as a young soldier.
Dave Brubeck