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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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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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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I used to sneak up to the 8th floor and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearsing 'Saturday Night Live' and could only wonder if I would ever have the chance to be funny. It took me five years to go up the two stories, but it is such a sense of fulfillment to be able to show what I can do on national television.
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In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.
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I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I said.
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Are you ready to have your mind blown? Sometimes Ron Howard uses swear words.
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It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question with a mind fresh and unshackled by former theories, though strengthened by exercise and information.
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Sometimes, an inability to believe in Satan reflects a larger inability to believe in a spiritual plane at all.
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I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.
