John Scofield Quotes
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.
Viktor E. Frankl -
It's such an overused phrase: 'to be part of the conversation.' But it's true. It is nice to be part of the conversation - just be sure they are talking about you in the right way.
Damian Lewis -
The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
Pat Conroy -
Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.
Kary Mullis
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I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.
Patricia Highsmith -
When we race in London a world record will be the last thing on our minds.
Haile Gebrselassie -
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it.
C. Day Lewis -
He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, and shall be treated in the same manner as he who convicts himself of this sin.
Saint Basil -
Walking on thin ice, I'm paying the price. I'm throwing the dice in the air. Why must we learn it the hard way And play the game of life with your heart?
Yoko Ono -
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
Bobby Bowden -
I was the runt of the family, the shortest and the smallest, so I think they perceived me as the one who was like, 'Look at me!' - just trying to get their attention and being a goofball.
Kay Cannon -
I'm a fraidy cat. I play everything very safe in my life, so I think that's why I like characters that don't.
Jennifer Jason Leigh -
Being open to what's happening in front of you is the most important thing about being a director. To allow the magic to exist and to be light enough on your feet to harness it as it's happening. That's what makes cinema interesting.
David MacKenzie -
My accent does slip. When I arrived in England in 1978 at 18, I was shocked to find myself 'the American' at RADA. The English and the Americans have an intense relationship. They helped us out in the Second World War.
Mark Rylance -
We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.
Charles B. Rangel
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It's hard to be a two-pitch guy. People tell you that, but you don't really believe it.
Drew Pomeranz -
My dad, he worries a bit, usually with good reason. There were quite a few years there where he was probably trying to resign himself to fact that I wouldn't live too much longer, just because of the way I was living.
Jason Isbell -
The music I love to sing would have to be gospel - it just uplifts me, it takes me to a really good place.
Jacob Lusk -
We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.
Carl Sagan -
The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.
Frank Black -
I guess I got lucky with my sound.
John Scofield