David Sanborn Quotes
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.
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I just want to be really clear about this: Anyone who has read Colin Powell's biography - there's an entire section where he talks about experiencing segregation. Colin Powell did not appear when he became head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That's not how it happened.
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We're the first not-white family to ever live in the governor's mansion. My son-in-law is Puerto Rican. I have a beautiful little granddaughter who is half Korean and half Latina. I'm the only white guy in the house.
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I have lived the life of the entrepreneur, and so I know the pain they are feeling. I know the daily ups and downs they go through. You know, they have their highs and lows sometimes within a matter of hours in a day.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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I am thinking about launching a wine website where there is a deal and the crowd can dictate how cheap it can get.
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I have lots of fans, they are mostly under the age of 12, boys and girls.
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I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.
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Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.
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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
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My father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.
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In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.
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'Sherlock' is beautifully done, if I may say so myself. Even if I wasn't in it, I would like the show.
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I did a history degree once.
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I'm a Jew. I think every Jew is dark in certain ways.
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Most people probably don't even know what toothpaste they buy; they just recognize the box on the shelf.
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When I make records, I never listen to stuff after it's done. Ever.
