Buddy Rich Quotes

A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

Buddy Rich

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• I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Good
  • Great
  • Career

• If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Future
  • Couple
  • Loss

• Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and researchers can access anything on a handheld device. Who needs to venture deep into the stacks when answers are but a click away?

  

  Sam Weller
  • May
  • Age
  • Deep

• There's some freedom that you get with indie films that you don't get with the big-budget ones. There's just a different style. I hope I can switch back and forth for the rest of my career, but I've kind of grown up on indies, and there's nothing better than working with these directors so closely and and being such a huge part of the process.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • Different
  • Hope

• I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Doing

• Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Refuge
  • Shallow
  • Seriousness

• A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Family
  • Myself
  • Attitude

• Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Joy

• To hate another is to hate yourself. We all live within the one Universal Mind. What we think about another, we think about ourselves. If you have an enemy, forgive him now. Let all bitterness and resentment dissolve. You owe your fellow man love; show him love, not hate. Show charity and goodwill toward others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Life
  • Live
  • Mind

• How we vote now will be determined by whether meaningful action can occur on some of the areas that we outlined a few weeks ago.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Action
  • Meaningful
  • Vote

• The conclusion is now inescapable that Iraq is in material breach of Resolution 1441, ... But, I also say this: That war is not inevitable.

  

  Jack Straw
  • War
  • Conclusion
  • Iraq

• You've got what looks like a year-end balance sheet. It's like memorizing an entire Excel file.

  

  Randy Cross
  • Balance
  • Memorizing
  • Excel file

• The mediocre golfer generally is one who is too lazy to play better.

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • Play
  • Lazy
  • Mediocre

• "I’m not Catholic, I’m not Orthodox…" and I wouldn’t even say Rastafarian, that still divides people, I don’t want to divide people so anything that I say is something that must be so big and great that it did encompass everyone and it’s love.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Great
  • Catholic

• We didn't call it a sport necessarily, and skaters definitely weren't thought of as athletes, we were thought of as misfits.

  

  Mike Vallely Black Flag
  • Sports
  • Athlete
  • Skater

• One bitter time of mourning, I remember, When day, and night, my sad heart did complain, My life, I said, was one cold, bleak December, And all its pleasures, were but whited pain.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Life
  • Time
  • Heart

• A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Musician