Buddy Rich Quotes
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades.
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The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
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We have the ability to be able, if we have the right resources around us, to really do chop and change and have fun in our time and not just be stuck in one world or the other.
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The way that people have gotten on board with me is the most encouraging thing in the world, but it's all very connected to the 14 years I've been on tour with Steel Train, even my band before that, Outline, and then fun. and now Bleachers.
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I invite people to read the hundreds of positive articles instead of getting affected by the occasional outburst from a troll.
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We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths.
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You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.
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I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have slipped into an era in which poor people don't matter is not quite the way our history would define it.
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I have a great life and I'm super active.
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Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.
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I have veterans in my family. But I didn't know anything about DAV, Disabled American Veterans.
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If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me. Help the homeless. Help the needy... people who don't have no food... Instead of some big funeral, where they come from here and there and all over. Save it.
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The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.
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But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.
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I feel like, whatever movie I was making, there would always be moments of human intimacy and insight into a little bit of what makes us tick as people.
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I seem to get motivated a few months at a time, and then something stressful breaks the routine, and I just fold.
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The reason the middle section switches to third person is, well, this is middle age. This is the part in her life where she loses track of something that was driving her and has to figure out what's going to drive the next part of her mission, this mission to be an author. I had to push back away from her for a while before we could come up to that really lyrical close third in the final section.
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Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.
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Mayor De Blasio's appointment of Bill Bratton as police commissioner is the height of hypocrisy. Asking Bratton to stop racial profiling and stop and frisk is like asking an arsonist to help you put out fires. Bratton along with his partner Giuliani started and supported racial profiling stops. A new progressive mayor? I think not!
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You only get better by playing.
