Miles Davis Quotes
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.
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I'm very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums - more like historical collections or house museums.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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You realize, no matter how great, books are not shows or movies; each operates on their own different rules. 'Game of Thrones' is no different. Being forced to come up with those scenes on short notice helped how we were viewing the show and forcing it to come into its own.
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There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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Every day there are homeowners in California who will either receive relief so they can stay in their home, or will be in the foreclosure process and potentially lose their home. And that always weighed heavily on my mind.
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In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.
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I know women at work who don't talk about having a baby because they don't want to upset the apple cart, but unless people know what the problems are, why should they engage with it?
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But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation.
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Photorealism's goal is to reproduce a photograph. The best photorealism can't beat a printer, and I have a really nice printer.
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The poem goes form the poet’s gibberish to The gibberish of the vulgate and back again.
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You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.
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My debut upon the world's stage occurred on February 26, 1845, in the State of Iowa.
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I'm lucky: I have very funny kids.
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Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
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It's funny being the big news every day - and the good news every day.
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Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.
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I do have a problem with someone that just wants a picture. People who ask for a selfie and don't even say hello to you, it's a weird thing that's happened in the last few years.
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The Bohr atom was introduced to us by Bohr himself. I still have the notes I took during his lectures … His discourse was rendered almost incomprehensible by his accent; there were endless references to what I recorded as “soup groups”, only later emended to “sub-groups”.
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Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
