Gene Krupa Quotes
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I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
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I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.
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We're just going to be ourselves, and we're just going to cross our fingers and hope that people like it. Because that's all you can do.
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It's true that none of my characters are admirable. But maybe I'm primarily a satirist, and a satirist needs to hold up what's not admirable.
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One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.
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I will come to know when my time's up, and when it is, I will exit gracefully. I will not hang around till I am kicked out.
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I'd love to have our trains, our subway cars and our taxis built right here in New York City. You can create 40,000 living wage jobs... the city's contracting power is huge.
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In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.
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Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
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Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way.
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When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.
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If you want to see me cry, just come to a photo shoot.
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I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
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We are born with two kidneys and only need one to survive. Maybe God gave us the other one so that we could give it away.
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Doing TV is great, but TV is for starring on, not for watching.
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To be rejected on account of old age may or may not feel the same as being rejected on the basis of race or sex. But it is clearly unjust and dehumanizing, and the law should take it more seriously than it does.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Who's to say what would have happened if I had trusted my instincts and moved to New York like I thought I would.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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I always like to find those little mom-and-pop sandwich places, or diners. Those are my favorite kind of places.
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At 10,000 feet, the 3 parachutes would come out, a little lower the pressure of the atmosphere outside was greater than inside, and we could smell the salt air and it was very encouraging to return to earth.
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I follow and cultivate my own curiosity. I think curiosity is one of the top two or three human characteristics. It's something that I really like about myself. [...] I want to understand stuff! I want to understand people! Following my curiosity so frequently leads me to better life decisions and better business decisions but also - just feeling better! You're never going to feel bad about your whole life if you loved people and you were curious. I mean, that's kind of all I want!
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If you're going to start with melody you'll need some tympani, I think.
