Bobby McFerrin Quotes
I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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Think and grow rich.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
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In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
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It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don't want to be left behind.
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When asked to make the formal declaration that I did not intend to overthrow the Constitution of the United States, I was fool enough to reply that I had no such purpose, but that were I to do it by mistake I should be inexpressibly contrite.
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My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any portion of the brave men under my command.
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Any time you lose, it's tough. There are always 50 plays where you could have won and 50 plays where you could have lost.
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I'm actually doing what I like doing, which is mixing opera music and classical music with soul and folk. And I was writing and talking about what I've actually experienced, and I don't think that's very common.
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I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.
