Bill Frisell Quotes
Every time I play with someone, not just a new person, but someone I've been with all along, that's where I really learn.
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I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'
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I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
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Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
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I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.
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I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances.
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I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.
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Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
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Admitting he never had any religion, he calls a friend his 'god' and the love of other people, God's spirit.
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You can say that I've grown bitter but of this you can be sure. The rich have get their channels in the bedrooms of the poor. And there's a mighty Judgement coming but I may be wrong…
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Wishing, of all employments, is the worst.
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Anybody can be a pendejo, said John Grady. That just means asshole.
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It doesn't matter that it can't last, that we don't find it more often. To know that there is such perfection, that there has been such perfection - it is worth living for. It exists. It has been - it is. One can contemplate it and feel complete peace.
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Good managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices.
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Memory, out of the mist, in a long slow rippleBreaks, blindly, against the shore.
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There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar.
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Getting an agent is hard, and I also think people rush to get an agent too soon.
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When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. It makes you more inward and needy. Gross.
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A man may commit sin and yet be ignorant of it, and fancy himself innocent when he is guilty... We shall do well to remember that when we make our own miserably imperfect knowledge and consciousness the measure of our sinfulness, we are on very dangerous ground.
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Every time I play with someone, not just a new person, but someone I've been with all along, that's where I really learn.
