Buddy Rich Quotes
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There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
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Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.
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I just don't think it's good to be around too much creative energy other than your own.
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I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.
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For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.
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As coaches, any work you may do, it's been done long ago.
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In track years... track is not like other sports. You do have track athletes that stay in this sport until, like, 35, 36, but I think when you get to 28, it's really difficult.
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I've always been very shy of doing television. I've always said 'no.' Not to be disrespectful to anyone - I didn't want to say 'yes' and then let people down.
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It was my study of the two Corinthian letters that first caused me to concentrate my attention more directly on the relation of the apostle Paul to the older apostles.
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Where is this Hollywood scene, where is it? I'd like to find it one day... If I want to go out and have a good time, I go to New York.
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The problem is that you can't really read a script saying, 'Hmmm, I'll just see what this is.' You have to go right into it; you have to get engaged with it, and once you are engaged, you want to do it! It's really difficult to get uninvolved.
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I'm really careful with what the music gets put with, and we say no to so much stuff, loads of it, for things that might quadruple the sales of my album. But if it doesn't fit then it doesn't fit, you know?
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Without boxing, I can't live. I love boxing.
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There is a plot. What would be the point of just a bunch of things? There's a story, but the story can hold abstractions. I believe in story. I believe in characters. But I believe in a story that holds abstractions, and a story that can be told based on ideas that come in an unconventional way.'
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Your life continues in those who continue the revolution.
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I love convincing a reader that an unusual or seemingly ordinary subject is worth his or her time - it's part of the fun for me as a writer.
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It takes us about four or five days to get an album out.
