Hamid Drake Quotes
If you're truly playing improvised music, I don't care who you are or where you come from, you don't know what's going to happen. I feel essentially we really don't know anything anyway, most of the times we're just guessing.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
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The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.
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People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.
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Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.
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I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.
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What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.
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I do think that there are certain parts, if you are lucky enough to play them, that are bigger than you, and they stretch you. I don't think you become a bigger person, but you develop certain muscles you didn't have before.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
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Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.
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We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.
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Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth.
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It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.
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I had an obsession with underarm shields - pointy ones, round ones, full ones, half ones.
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A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.
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All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.
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Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunities of the moment. It is the willingness to admit error and the refusal to be deterred by failure.
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Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side
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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
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If you're truly playing improvised music, I don't care who you are or where you come from, you don't know what's going to happen. I feel essentially we really don't know anything anyway, most of the times we're just guessing.
