Dizzy Gillespie Quotes
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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People trash talk me.
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I'm a pretty big news junkie.
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Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.
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I really wasn't into comic books growing up.
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It's true that most people in the trans community don't have the incredible wealth and privilege that Caitlyn does. I don't think that, in any way, diminishes her struggle in her own transitioning.
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Laws don't really restrain people. Ninety-eight percent of people follow a virtuous course with or without laws.
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America, I know the road will be long, but I know we can get there. Yes, we will stumble, but I know we’ll get back up. That’s how a movement happens. That’s how history bends. That's how when somebody is faint of heart, somebody else brings them along and says, come on, we’re marching.
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Der Irrthum verhält sich gegen das Wahre wie der Schlaf gegen das Wachen. Ich habe bemerkt, daß man aus dem Irren sich wie erquickt wieder zu dem Wahren hinwende.
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I absolutely don't nurture any grudge against those calling me overrated. Well, they are merely conforming what I've been asserting for years now. Yes, I have been exalted to a pedestal much higher than I merit, which has both embarrassed and elated me.
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I didn't become one.. .As long as I can remember I've always been one.
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19: A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
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Someone once asked me what my working timetable was like and when was the last time I went on a holiday. I said about 20 years back. I don’t work anymore, because I get paid to do what I like most. So it’s like a paid holiday.
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If in the midst of the many Dissatisfaction among us, the publication of these Trials may promote such a pious Thankfulness unto God, for Justice being so far executed among us, I shall Re-joyce that God is Glorified...
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When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.
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For me, music gives a voice to fashion.
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When people succeed they party, when people fail they ponder.
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Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
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I never really set out to be a comedian, but as a kid, I loved doing sketches and playing characters. And then a great friend kept telling me I should be a comedian, so I followed her advice and gave it a shot.
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People are only loyal until it becomes convenient not to be.
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Paradise is full of idiots who believe it exists.
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I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.
