Jan Garbarek Quotes
Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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I think when you have an optimistic attitude, and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will find the good things in your life and that you will lead to good relationships and good people in your life. And you can make the most of what he's given you.
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In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.
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There's no regrets for me.
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I want to have a long career.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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It is our nation which is blind, and needs our prayers.
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I can remember wondering as a child if I were a young Macaulay or Ruskin and secretly deciding that I was. My infant mind even was bitter with those who insisted on regarding me as a normal child and not as a prodigy.
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And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code.
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Lucretius and his tradition taught Shelley that freedom came from understanding causation.
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I say always follow your passion, no matter what, because even if it's not the same financial success, it'll lead you to the money that'll make you the happiest.
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Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.
