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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America is huge.
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What goes up must come down; I'm not going to be in 'Hamilton' forever. Everything I work on won't have this kind of success.
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Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
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For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.
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I never have a realistic sense of self. I either think everything I do is terrible and I'm the worst guy on the planet, or from time to time I'll think I'm the greatest gift to music and the coolest guy who ever lived, but that happens maybe an hour out of the week. Some days I'm more concerned with how my hair looks than what my guitar sounds like.
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I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.
