Jerry Coleman Quotes
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I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
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We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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Yes, iD is a machine vision and sensor browser for the physical world. That's what we have been working on with Coca-Cola, Verizon, Bank of America and Disney to launch content when an image is recognised.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.
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Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
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I don't like travelling. Which is ridiculous. And it's not because I'm afraid of dying on the plane or anything. I just like to stay at home.
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When you're blessed, you've got to be sensitive to people that don't have and need to depend on somebody else to eat.
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I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too.
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Now when I see something beautiful or funny or sweet, sometimes I reach for my camera, but other times I think, 'I need to let this moment exist. I don't have to capture everything. I just want to experience it.'
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Ah me, why did they build my house by the road to the market town?
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I think if there's any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it's that I've been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what's expected.
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Davis fouls out to third in fair territory.
