Ray Brown Quotes
I will have a song that I'm in love with for a couple of months and then I'll go to something else. That's just constantly changing. And sometimes I will go back to old one that I haven't heard for a long time.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.
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I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.
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I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.
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I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.
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They're dressing like in the 50's when they come out to the shows, and many of them have vintage cars.
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If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
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It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
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The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.
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Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.
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When you're a kid, and you grow up, it takes some time for people to associate you with more things other than that initial thing.
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I was under 18, and to leave Kenya to come to the United States, to get a passport, you had to be 18. So I lied and said I was 19 to get the passport, because otherwise, I had to have permission from my parents, and my parents would never have let me come.
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My teammates have put me in all different kinds of positions to score goals, and I can't say it enough, and I really through and through believe it in my heart that I'm only as good as my teammates allow me to be.
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I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time.
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Holding individuals accountable for corporate wrongdoing isn't ideological; it's good law enforcement.
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I know you don't wanna hear my opinion, There come many paths and you must choose one. And if you don't change then the rain soon come. See, you might win some, but you just lost one.
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One can be a technical master - full of craftsmanship, but not in most senses an artistic master.
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Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
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I think Bill Finn's one of the geniuses of theatre, and James Lapine's one of the diamonds of my generation. The two together are a joy!
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Children who know that they have something to offer others will learn that they can shape the world around them for the better.
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The best thing I can do is stay on the road and build a grass-roots following. I'm constantly about building my brand.
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I will have a song that I'm in love with for a couple of months and then I'll go to something else. That's just constantly changing. And sometimes I will go back to old one that I haven't heard for a long time.
