John Coltrane Quotes
I've been listening to jazzmen, especially saxophonists, since the time of the early Count Basie records, which featured Lester Young. Pres was my first real influence, but the first horn I got was an alto, not a tenor.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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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'm a little angry in life.
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I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than 'Game of Thrones.' Like, they're not even on the same playing field.
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For a spinner growing up in England, it is challenging to become an off-spinner. The line and length needs to be altered on each of the four days of county cricket or five days of Test matches. The pitches in England don't have a set pattern. It changes with each day, and accordingly, the length varies.
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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From now back to the past, we can observe clearly that none of us is free.
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I have learned how to breathe, to use my cords differently. I had been tilting my head in a way when I talked that wasn't good for my throat. I've been working on all of that, and it seems to be helping.
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People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.
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I've got a pen and I've got a phone - and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.
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There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.
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The 4 aspects of each of the media actually constitute the four features of all metaphors. In other words, all human technologies whatever are, in the fullest sense, linguistic outerings, or utterings, of man. (p. 275)
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Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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My job is all about defending the people that I play.
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It's probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.
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I've been listening to jazzmen, especially saxophonists, since the time of the early Count Basie records, which featured Lester Young. Pres was my first real influence, but the first horn I got was an alto, not a tenor.
