John Coltrane Quotes
My goal is to live the truly religious life and express it through my music. If you can live it, there's no problem about the music, because it's part of the whole thing.
Quotes to Explore
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.
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I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.
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If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.
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The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.
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Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
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Good legislation should bring clarity and not confusion.
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From early Colonial days, sex life in America had been based on the custom of men supporting women. That situation reached its heyday in the Twenties when it was easy for any dabbler in stocks to flaunt his manhood by lavishing an unearned income on girls. But with the stock-market crash, men were hard put even to keep their wives, let alone spend money on sex outside the home. The adjustment was much easier on women than on men, who jumped out of windows in droves, whereas I can't recall a single headline that read: KEPT GIRL LEAPS FROM LOVE NEST.
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My goal is to live the truly religious life and express it through my music. If you can live it, there's no problem about the music, because it's part of the whole thing.
