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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For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life.
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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When I was 17, I decided I was going to leave home.
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I feel I should be doing stupid stuff, but I'm not going to.
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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
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If you're going to start with melody you'll need some tympani, I think.
