Miles Davis Quotes
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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I'm not a stone-thrower when it comes to Hillary Clinton and her emails and her server. I don't think there has been criminal intent on Hillary Clinton's part. I don't see an indictment.
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The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?
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Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.
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People will still give me attention: even when my teeth are gone, I'll have some good stories to tell.
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You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.
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If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws - the first growing out of the last... A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.
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A prima descendit origine mundicausarum series.
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Nice guys finish last.
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I don't believe in any kind of fundamentalism.
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There have been points in my life as an artist where I have wanted to capture people's attention, probably to compensate for times when I felt invisible.
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When I get a script that has the opportunity to create discussion and inspire young girls, I don't want to say no to that... I just want to contribute.
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I often work and write in coffee shops, observing the baristas and eavesdropping on interesting conversations.
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If I laugh a couple of times a day, I'm doing good. People think it's their God-given right to be happy, and it's just not. It's something you've got to work at. I like to paint the human condition, and the human condition is not smiles and happy people.
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I wanna make my mark, and I wanna be part of something!
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I'm not so much of a person for causes, unless I specifically - for instance, if it's my cause, or some poor people's, I'll try to help. But you won't find me playing for any peace candidates - or any candidates.
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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
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...from politics, it was an easy step to silence.
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Decency is Indecency’s Conspiracy of Silence.
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The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?
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If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
