John James Audubon Quotes
In America, business is the first object in view at all times, and rightly it should be so.
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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I spent ten years riding motorcycles.
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Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.
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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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What is important is to have values in life. What's important is how you are, not how you look.
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Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
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At a person-to-person level, I think that there's always something to be said for having some empathy for the folks who really, really disagree with you about a given topic.
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All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
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Really, feminism is just about equality, and that's all. It's just saying equal rights.
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And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get very predictable. In other words, certain songs would surface in the same points in the set every so often; it was like rotation.
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I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite seat. I would show up, and he would be there, and I would get exiled to a couch or something, and it would throw me off my game.
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Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
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The first year, I didn't have much capital so I did everything myself. I had to keep my overhead low by learning everything about running a business, from accounting to fixing the gears of my equipment. I really started from scratch.
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In America, business is the first object in view at all times, and rightly it should be so.
