Miroslav Vitous Quotes

So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.

Miroslav Vitous

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• How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

  

  Florence Nightingale
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• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
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• Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.

  

  Irwin Redlener
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• It's interesting having a son. Someone told me that it's good when you have a son first because when you have a daughter first and then a son, you think your son's slow. A lot of parents freak out because they've seen a daughter progress so quickly, and they think their male child is, like, damaged. But boys are just naturally slow.

  

  Olivia Wilde
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• Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

  

  Ted Rall
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  • Like
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• There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.

  

  M. J. Rose
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• I am Lebanese, and I know the interests of my country.

  

  Najib Mikati
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• I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.

  

  Rachel Joyce
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• Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of the Tories, who I suspect will become increasingly impatient in their appetite for tax cuts, deregulation and shrinking the state even further.

  

  Frances O'Grady
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• But it is only through constant, faithful endeavor by the girl herself that the goal eventually is reached.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Girl
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  • Faithful

• Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
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• Pittsburgh was a great team. Coach Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, L.C. Greenwood and all those guys did a great job. That's the team that kept us from winning two Super Bowls. It was a great rivalry.

  

  Earl Campbell
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• A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing … You come to a point where you have sung, more or less … your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living. You know, up until that point, I hadn't had a life. I'd been searching, been on the road.

  

  Cat Stevens
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• Clarice: proposing to Toni I'll be your lawyer if you'll be my accountant.

  

  Alison Bechdel
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• I took the first few years off and spent them recovering. I didn't even know what day it was or who I was anymore, so I made a conscious effort to end it all. I thought my days were numbered as a pop star anyway. My girlfriend and I had a daughter, I had some money, so I just took the time off to chill out.

  

  Rick Astley
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  • Star

• Sometimes I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unlovable in it, for all of it is part of me.

  

  Ralph Ellison

• Aim to write for an hour per day. I used to be a teacher, and an hour a day before school was all it took for me to write my first book. Don't get discouraged if a holiday or illness interrupts your writing habit. Just start it up again.

  

  Caroline Lawrence
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• Americans deserve both clean air and clean water and never one at the expense of the other.

  

  Carol Browner
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  • Air
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• Men who are not loyal to their wives are foolish.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Men
  • Loyal
  • Wives

• By an ambitious chieftain, aiming only to aggrandize himself and establish his power, the subject might have been regarded in a different light; but the designs and actions of Washington centred in nobler objects, the freedom, tranquillity, and happiness of his country, in which he was to participate equally with every other citizen, neither seeking nor expecting any other preeminence than that of having been an instrument in the hand of Providence.

  

  George Washington
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  • Providence

• OK, go away, and I'll find someone who really wants to play for Australia.

  

  Allan Border
  • Want
  • Play
  • Find

• So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.

  

  Miroslav Vitous
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