Buddy DeFranco Quotes

When I heard Charlie Parker, I knew that that was going to be the new wave, the new way to play jazz. From that point on, I was sold with... the idea of bebop.

Buddy DeFranco

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• I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Think
  • Way
  • Singing

• Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Man
  • Years
  • Errors

• If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Body
  • Window
  • Throw

• When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Up
  • Team
  • Sports

• I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through that, I learned that even with fundraisers, libraries often don't make money - they just barely break even.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Money
  • City
  • Library

• I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • School
  • History
  • Today

• While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Important
  • Long
  • Success

• All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Important
  • Success
  • Bridge

• No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Think
  • Me
  • Fancies

• I think that there is a sort of spiritual power that is translating into our bodies as we perform. Performers give, and giving is so important. It can heal. That is my experience, anyway.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Power

• I've said my piece. My time now is entirely focused on family.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Family
  • Said

• When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Night

• Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them. You don't know what they're going to wreck and destroy.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Up
  • House
  • You

• Finishing is one of the most difficult things to do in cricket. A player can't be a finisher in just 6 months or one year. You have to be used to that responsibility, keeping on doing what is required from you over a period of time.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Time
  • Responsibility
  • Player

• Self-justification is a treacherous servant.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Servant
  • Treacherous

• When I was around nine, my parents took me to my first live event, which was a WWE show with Ultimate Warrior. From then on, I loved it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Live
  • Parents
  • Loved

• The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Eyes
  • Daily
  • Sky

• The role of president, as George W. Bush commented in 2000, requires vision, management, and an eye for talent - not so different from that of CEO. But during the first years of Carter's presidency, his Cabinet was anything but businesslike, beset by infighting and meetings that ambled.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Different
  • Vision
  • Eye

• We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.

  

  David Brainerd
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths.

  

  George Lloyd

• As cliche as it sounds, I've always told myself, 'Don't worry about the things you can't control. Control the things you can control.' That battle has beat up on me for years.

  

  Doug Baldwin
  • Up
  • Control
  • Worry

• Some of our businesses use more energy than others, but our strategy everywhere is the same... first, reduce our use of energy as much as possible. Then, switch to renewable sources of power where it makes economic sense... And, over time, as a last resort, offset the emissions we can't avoid.

  

  Rupert Murdoch
  • Energy
  • Economic
  • Strategy

• When I learned how millions of children go to bed hungry, my only response was, 'What can I do to help?'

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Children
  • Help
  • Helping

• When I heard Charlie Parker, I knew that that was going to be the new wave, the new way to play jazz. From that point on, I was sold with... the idea of bebop.

  

  Buddy DeFranco