Buddy Rich Quotes
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.
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We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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I love New York. Love it.
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Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.
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As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
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I had fun while I did it, and I left it all out there on the field. I'm tapped out.
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My philosophy is to not be scared of anyone. If I play well, great; if I don't, I learn from the match and move on.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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'Don’t you think it’s ironic that you have no idea what you’re supposed to do,' said Verily, 'and yet so many people have gone to so much trouble to prevent you from doing it?'
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I really do believe we can stuff enough algorithms in a movie that only the dedicated hackers can spend the time and effort to try to plumb through those 1,000 algorithms to try to find a way to beat it.
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In all honesty it was easier to believe it in cool Long Island for its very outrageousness where nobody believed anything very seriously than in hot Carolina where everybody was a Christian and found unbelief unbelievable.
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If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.
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Ingiustissimo Amor, perché sì raroCorrispondenti fai nostri desiri?Onde, perfido, avvien che t'è sì caroIl discorde voler ch’in duo cor miri?
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My writing and my paintings do not have a direct connection in my mind. But I am sure they influence each other in the measure that everything we do is linked to whatever we are, which includes whatever we have done or are doing.
Etel Adnan -
I try to be myself as much as I can, I’m always trying to be myself, and I mean, I guess that’s what they’re voting for.
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When I got my first loft, I still didn't know what I was going to paint... There were long stretches when I just sat there and thought without interruption.
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At work, you want to stand out but not in extra-funky ways. At the core, it's about dressing for girls - who are most of my fans - and you want to dress up for them. You just want to feel like you're on top of your game.
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When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home.
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I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.
