Paul Desmond Quotes
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and no guy laying a cheesy line on them is actually going to impact their world.
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Nothing escapes God's knowledge. This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy of the sun, which, although created, yet by its light or heat enters into all things.
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I can't touch Simon anymore.
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The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.
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There aren't always, especially in low-income communities, the arts and the dance and the drama and the things that can really show a kid, 'Look, even if I'm three years behind in math, there's something I'm good at that can help me be successful in life.'
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Political development should start at the grassroots.
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I was looking to explore the theme of good and evil, so what better inspiration than the comics? I'd developed a relationship with DC and Warner Bros. when I donated a sculpture of Catwoman to the 'We Can Be Heroes' campaign a few years ago. That's what started it.
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If you work out 20 minutes a day in some way, you're going to see changes.
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'Watchmen' is like the music you feel is written just for you. 'That's my song, no one else gets that but me.' That's why the fan base is so rabid, because they feel personal about it.
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There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.
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I never want to hurt anyone on the ice. That's not the type of player I am.
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If you have a lot of sweetness and quirkiness, someone's got to have a little bit of bite against that.
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High school is a haunted house in April, when seniors act up because the end is near. Even those who hate school sometimes cling to the devil they know. And for the kids who love it, the goodbyes are hard to think about.
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After graduating from National School of Drama, I started doing theatre in Delhi. But there was not much money in Hindi theatre.
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Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.
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Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light.
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I'm a leukemia survivor, and I recall during my darkest days in the hospital when my friends would come to see me, especially the male friends - they had certain mortality issues with their visit.
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But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.
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When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.
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Yes, there is a crisis of hunger on the planet, but hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.
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I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.
