Buddy Rich Quotes

And, you know, I think the original recording of Ravel's Bolero, probably whoever played percussion on that, will never have It played better than that.

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• I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
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• Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
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• I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.

  

  Rafer Johnson
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• Sometimes I wake up and think, 'I want to look like Sherlock Holmes today,' and other times I want to look like a witch from 'Macbeth.'

  

  Edie Campbell
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• Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.

  

  Malcolm X
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• I'm a fan of books that are almost languorous in their storytelling. That is a little bit lost sometimes in the modern media that we have.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
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• You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.

  

  Barbara Castle
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• There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all aimed at Gary Condit, besides the fact that he has a relationship.

  

  Barbara Olson
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• Most public officials work hard to serve the public good and abide by Oregon's ethics laws.

  

  Kate Brown
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• I love seeing the fans of the music that I make.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
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• I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.

  

  Mahavira
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• These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
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• I have made hundreds of dives in submersibles, with each dive holding the promise of seeing an organism or a behavior that no one has ever seen before. But I have always wondered about the animals and behaviors that we're not seeing because our bright lights and loud thrusters scare them away.

  

  Edith Widder
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• Whenever I am in Paris, all I want to do is inhale a big plate of cheese. And in New York, my favourite thing is a toasted bagel with cream cheese. Not only do I not avoid carbs, I more or less have them in every meal. When I start denying myself foods, that's when I crave them.

  

  Naomi Watts
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• The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.

  

  Samuel Beckett
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• It is my request to you, tit for tat is not a solution. Ver ver thi shamtu nathi. Hatred is never won over by hatred.

  

  Narendra Modi

• I have never imputed to Nature a purpose or a goal, or anything that could be understood as anthropomorphic. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of 'humility.' This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• Politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we are governed.. And what will be the end of such ways? I will tell you. We shall have a Democracy that will be the reign of those who know the least and talk the loudest.

  

  Amelia Barr
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• I, for one, am pretty exhausted since I started blogging almost a year ago. But I am blaming that on my two sons, aged 3 and 6, whose perpetual-motion-machine energy is hard to keep up with at my advanced age.

  

  Kara Swisher
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• 'Snow' is my most popular book in the United States. But in Turkey, it was not as popular as 'My Name is Red,' or even 'The Museum of Innocence,' because the secular leaders didn't want this bourgeois Orhan trying to understand these head-scarf girls.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
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• I'm a little bit of a germophobe - not that bad!

  

  Amber Riley
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• Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence and threats when they endanger liberty.

  

  George W. Romney
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• And, you know, I think the original recording of Ravel's Bolero, probably whoever played percussion on that, will never have It played better than that.

  

  Buddy Rich