Herb Alpert Quotes
I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.
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Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.
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I like to be busy. It's not always easy because the schedule gets busy; especially, the more successful you are, the more demands you have. But it's definitely worth the sacrifice.
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There were no theatre facilities at the comp that I went to, but I did have amazing teachers who never stopped encouraging me.
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I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.
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One way or another, Gaza's residents must live in peace with Israel.
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I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.
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Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a particular wine when they judge it on multiple occasions.
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I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reader is toyed with by someone who didn't decide herself who the killer was until the end of the writing.
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What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.
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Clearly, healthcare is a very important sector.
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Very rarely will you listen to the radio in a judgmental way, the way you'll watch telly.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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When you're talking about Tim Burton, you're talking about a guy that has such a visual sense, an aesthetic, a storytelling style. It's like he's got his own genre.
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I've always been the, 'Sure, I'll try that' guy. I'm very adventurous and don't have fears. I think I got that from my mother's side because she was an Olympic skier. Jump off a mountain with a parachute? Sure. What could possibly go wrong?
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The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.
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I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.
