Mary Lou Williams Quotes
He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and there and then I decided to settle down and play seriously.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't know if I'm worthy of his attention.'
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What more can you ask for than to see a ballgame in spring?
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I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the South or writers from abroad, it's where they begin as children that is important to them.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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All of the people are the dependents of Allah.
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There are so many ways to talk with the people who appreciate my help.
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My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by.
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
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I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big fuss over me. Don't make no big expense on my funeral. Don't put any pressure on the rest of the family. I've loved everybody, and I hope they loved me. But don't create this big expense for the family.'
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I continue with the illusion of serving Colombia. Only God knows if it were to be from the presidency.
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Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines.
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The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
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The experience of the world is worth more than the experience of any one man.
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If I can do something for the game and the young cricketers through the ICL, I will not budge
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You have to create little pockets of joy in your life to take care of yourself.
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Imitation can be commercial suicide.
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The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
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I don't like the sound of my own voice. And, for people I don't know, their impression of me is what they read on the internet, and they're so far off a lot of the time. I think people are intimidated by me, and I don't know why. Sometimes even my own bandmates can be intimidated, or irritated, by me. I come across as arrogant somehow. In reality, I've probably got the lowest self-esteem of anybody I know, which has really been rubbed in my face lately in personal situations.
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My brothers came home with country, jazz, everything... it was always very normal to me to make any type of music. It was possible to fuse all the sounds, so it never sounded confusing to me to mix jazz and dubstep.
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He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and there and then I decided to settle down and play seriously.
