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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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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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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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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Power is winning the battle over who owns the customer: the brand or the retailer.
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On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
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Short fiction encourages experimentation, and it's fun to play with form and try experiments that may or may not work out.
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Listen, just do what you think is right, and we'll support it." ~ Sticky Washington, The Prisoner's Dilemma
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As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me. Then when you see a film later, it can be infuriating, really disappointing. I've been very lucky, though, and so many of my early experiences were great.
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Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.
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Consider that this day ne'er dawns again.
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I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.
