David Sanborn Quotes
To me, the object of practicing is to allow you to play what you hear. But you're always hearing new things, so you never get to the end of it.
Quotes to Explore
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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
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Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.
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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
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I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.'
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.
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If there really is a God, then he really looks after me.
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I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'
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I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.
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My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes.
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We did major work at the White House. But what people often don't understand is that when you do a historic restoration, you can't just do whatever you want. You work alongside the fine-arts commission and are obliged to create a replica of the past, as close as humanly possible. It's a historic institution, not a showhouse.
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Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam 'goes quietly into that good night.'
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Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time.
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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I could be equally happy on a film set or in the middle of a field.
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Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
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Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
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I don't know how long I would've stayed, to be honest.
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democracy ... begins from the ground up. Anything living grows from the bottom up. Everything dangerous, like bombs, gets dropped from the sky down.
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Never define your success by somebody else's success. I never looked at another man's grass to tell how green mine should be.
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Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or a watercooler. It can become an intrinsic part of their dialogue.
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Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a novel that I have read over and over and over again. Tess is a pure child who has an inner glow none of the others in the book possess. They reject her because she is different, and they try in every possible manner to destroy her, because they are jealous. It is an extraordinary love story.
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Chocolate is the greatest gift to women ever created.
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To me, the object of practicing is to allow you to play what you hear. But you're always hearing new things, so you never get to the end of it.
