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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We have to worry about protecting the Constitution.
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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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My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we're very light on American history. We don't really have great opportunities to study both the Civil War and the Revolution.
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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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The consequences of decisions don't just affect spreadsheets... They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the difference between life and death.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness and replacing it with the power and wisdom that can only come with old age.
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Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.
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You only get better by playing.
