David Sanborn Quotes
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.
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Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it's like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it. You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.
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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
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I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.
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Fighting Manny Pacquiao in the future - there's possibilities it could happen. But whatever happens in the future happens in the future.
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One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.
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My cat does this thing where he's so happy to see me that he repeatedly smashes his face into my face and purrs like a literal pig.
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We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.
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You could draw certain parallels between the structure of the Pompidou and the structure of the rocket-launching facilities at Cape Canaveral. They might not have been thinking about it, but I think there is some kind of unconscious affinity there.
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Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
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I always wanna be in the process of evolving and growing.
