Stan Getz Quotes
You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.
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Laughter made you live better and longer.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
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I wonder if I maybe have a natural floatiness that comes through in everyone I play.
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The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.
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I always say the greats just get better.
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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In 'Rangoon', I play an action star of the 1940s.
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski -
You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.
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Whenever possible, I use local, fresh ingredients, just because it tastes and feels better to eat an egg or a tomato or a hamburger that wasn't flown halfway around the world, that didn't travel on a truck and get stuck in traffic jams, that hasn't been sitting in a supermarket's refrigerator case for days.
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I don't want women and their families to be left out and left behind. We can fight for them. We will fight for them. They deserve better and I want to give them better.
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I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.
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Of course I have had a boyfriend. However, I was way too busy while taking care of myself, and I could not show a better care for my boyfriend. I found myself getting more and more egocentric, and I was not a good girlfriend at all.
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There's no better exercise than dancing. 'Dancing with the Stars' is amazing. I used to take it for granted, but the three months you spend on the show, with that grueling regimen, you just shed weight. You can eat anything you want and it doesn't stick.
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The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.
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It is good, it is better to be voted by the players - they know everything about football.
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We used to have to arrange things around the dialysis. I would have to plan where to play so I could be back in time, and couldn't go too far.
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It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.
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I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.
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We're going to go and play the songs one more time. It seems like the right time, so I figure we'll go out and play a few gigs and see where it goes. I think we might just show up in assorted places in the U.S. in the next few months without much notice and play some clubs and little theaters, and then go to Europe and play these festival gigs. Beyond that, we don't know at this point.
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I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year.
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I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit.
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You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.