John Coltrane Quotes
I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe.
Quotes to Explore
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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I have decided in 2020 to run for president.
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I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
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When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
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That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!
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I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.
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Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.
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My perspective is the Earth will be here. It just may not be habitable to our life form. We get confused. We think we're the center of everything.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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Throughout the world, the family is increasingly under attack. If families fail, many of our political, economic, and social systems will also fail.
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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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Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generationsit comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floorand all your thrashed coasts groan.
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I don't believe in God.
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For you to be able to take a picture of yourself that you feel good enough about to share with the world - I think that's a great thing.
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I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe.
