Miles Davis Quotes
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
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If we were poor, we didn't know it 'cause I guess you don't miss what you never had. So, you know, we made do with whatever. We used to make our own toys, and we used to play with spinning tops and marbles. A pocket full of marbles, and you were rich - you didn't worry about no money.
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The real challenge that we face in our communications with others is to condition our hearts to have Christlike feelings for all of Heavenly Father's children. When we develop this concern for the condition of others, we then will communicate with them as the Savior would.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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I love dressing up.
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I love to go to casinos with my wife. I play poker, and she's an old-fashioned slot queen. She even has a visor.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
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In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
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I'm not over the top; I'm not wacky. I'm fairly understated, and that reflects in the way I sing.
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See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
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I think I have character, and that is what people like in me.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.
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Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile cavalry.
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O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees It is a love in darkness wrought obedient to the unseen sun, longer than memory, a thought deeper than the graves of time. The turning spindles of the cells weave a slow forest over space, the dance of love, creation, out of time moves not a leaf, and out of summer, not a shade.
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You've just got to trust your instincts and realize that you can't please all the people all the time. You've got to please yourself ultimately in the end.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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Rather than allowing jihadists to shut down debate, it must proliferate so much that they simply cannot kill us all.
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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
