Buddy Rich Quotes
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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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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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
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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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I'm very careful. I think about everything. Some people go, 'Oh, I went out and bought something and didn't realise how much it was,' but there's no such thing with me. I always think about the future because I never want to go backwards.
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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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We have to move from the unbridled pursuit of self-gain at the expense of others to recovering appreciation for what we gain by caring and sharing with one another.
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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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For me, a $20 wine that drinks like a $40 wine in terms of complexity and interest is a value, while a $5 wine that is not very good is not a value at all in my opinion.
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To me, our signature song was 'Rosanna.' That was the ultimate Toto track, where everybody had a chance to shine.
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At the end of the day, one of the most politically active voters in the country, seniors, will know who stood with them and who didn't.
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And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.
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I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.
