Buddy Rich Quotes
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.
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On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.
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I once had someone say to me in an interview, 'You are more ugly on the screen than in real life.'
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As soon as you say that there is a community called, let's say, black Americans, you've immediately created a boundary line - who's in that group, who's outside that group.
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I'm just going to go live life. I'm going to go enjoy life. I have nothing left to hide. I am kind of a free person, a free soul.
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I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.
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I learned how quickly I could go from having never met someone to having the world think I'm dating them.
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I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.
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Wearing khadi was a badge of honour. It was something one was proud to do.
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She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.
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I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7.
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I keep returning to the combination of artichoke, broad beans and lemon. The freshness of young beans and the lemon juice 'lifts' the artichoke and balances its hearty nature.
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I like men who are intelligent and sensitive.
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How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
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I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.
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I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.
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There needs to be a homemaker exercising some measure of skill, imagination, creativity, desire to fulfill needs and give pleasure to others in the family. How precious a thing is the human family. It it not worth some sacrifice in time, energy, safety, discomfort, work? Does anything come forth without work?
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I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.
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We have home videos that are really great tape on my parents being hysterical. So I think I always knew that my parents were funny, so I think that I always felt comfortable using comedy in my real life.
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Someone asked me if I was a method actor - I loved that! I needed to know what it felt like to lose everything just to do the Bad Day video! I could really feel the angst!
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There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.
