Jerry Leiber Quotes
Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My music was the blues.
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Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
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Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.
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I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
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I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
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That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
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When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. It makes you more inward and needy. Gross.
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Through faith we are restored to paradise and created anew. We have no need of works in order to be righteous; however, in order to avoid idleness and so that the body might be cared for an disciplined, works are done freely to please God.
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Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.
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Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks.
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Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My music was the blues.
