Paul Desmond Quotes
I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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A 'Friends' shoot night could extend well into the small hours of the morning.
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Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.
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As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport.
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I listen to a lot of choral stuff at home, but I'm also liking Labrinth, Emeli Sande, Tom Odell and Wretch 32.
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My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.
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A physicist looks for causes; that does not necessarily imply that there are causes everywhere. A man may look for gold without assuming that there is gold everywhere; if he finds gold, well and good, if he doesn't he's had bad luck. The same is true when the physicists look for causes.
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African American students have less access to algebra and more access to seclusion and restraint than do their white peers. The significant disparity in educational resources has caused this problem of disparate discipline and disparate academic outcomes.
Chaka Fattah -
It's hard for women who make a lot of money and make decisions all day long, then they have to come home and be 'Stupid Sally.' Men need respect, and they need to know that they can lead in the relationship, so even if they don't make the most money they need to be able to call the shots.
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We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
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Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.
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I sometimes joke - but the joke is not so wrong - that after my time in East Germany, I could either afford therapy to work through what happened under the Communists or move to New York.
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I have a lot of girlfriends. That's sort of my whole thing is, I have really, really deep friendships, more so than anybody I've ever met.
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One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.
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We wanted to enjoy what we were doing and we had business things we had to straighten out and personnel problems and it sort of took a little time to do it.
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His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.
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Above all, we ask the poet to teach us a way of seeing.
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If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
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I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.
