Edmund Burke Quotes
Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
Quotes to Explore
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I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
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I'm not on fire for the Lord, so I tried to make myself generate this fire for the Lord.
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A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.
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My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'
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I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
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Sometimes I rush my swing because I am so anxious to play well. In Cuba, the quality of the pitching is not the same as it is here. There you might find one or two pitchers at 94 or 95 mph. Here, every day I find several, and each pitcher who comes along throws his hardest stuff.
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When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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There are a lot of guys who play in pro-style offenses who are not prepared when they come out of college. Either you're coaching the quarterback to be a quarterback, or you're not.
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I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.
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I sing around the house, in the shower.
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It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.
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Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.
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I thought, 'I've been doing this for 16 years professionally. I have a window where I want to play leading parts.'
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I'm drawn to projects where I play these really complicated characters, but also where I can have some type of influence on affecting what we see as societal norms.
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My age is getting up there, but that doesn't mean my play has to diminish.
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Prince, you never knew what to expect from him from one album to the next. Miles Davis was like that. You know, once you get used to one style, boom, he switched it and, you know, switched gears on you. So those artists are very exciting to me, very exciting to follow their path, you know, and their journey.
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Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.
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My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.
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To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
