John Coltrane Quotes
Sometimes you have to take a thing when it comes and be glad. I first began to feel this way in '57, when I started to get myself together musically, although at the time I was working academically and technically.
Quotes to Explore
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
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As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
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Technology companies tend to operate in winner-take-all spaces and thus adopt a very high-commitment culture.
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Any time you're lucky enough to get on a show people watch, it's a good thing.
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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I was too ashamed and afraid to confide in friends, and wanted to convince others and myself that my marriage was a success. I lost myself in my writing. Finding ways for my characters to overcome their problems and make their relationships work helped plaster over the wound caused by my inability to make things right at home.
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Sometimes you have to take a thing when it comes and be glad. I first began to feel this way in '57, when I started to get myself together musically, although at the time I was working academically and technically.
