Buddy Rich Quotes
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I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
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I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.
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As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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Fortunately, the music from the first record really connected with people, and I was really proud of that.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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Everyone's got to have a bit of faith.
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The 50s are the age of elegance. That's kind of my intention when I get dressed: casual elegance.
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Making music, if you're a real musician, you carry on regardless in this world.
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Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.
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The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.
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Music will always be young.
