Art Farmer Quotes
For a person to have a contented life, they have to find something that challenges them and respond to it…
Quotes to Explore
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
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The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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I hope that I can continue to champion Dr. Paul's efforts to audit the Fed, protect state's rights, and getting our nation back on track.
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In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.
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No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
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I finally, you know, moved to Mexico City, where the film industry is. I started working there as a producer, which is a very, very valid thing for women to do, because we always produce for men, right?
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I want to be in love with what I do at all times, and I want to stay in love.
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From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and elevated the mass, and the sole obstacles that nullified and retarded their efforts were slavery and race prejudice; for what is slavery but the legalized survival of the unfit and the nullification of the work of natural internal leadership?
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There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing.
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.
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Pete's my best friend, I was the best man at his wedding, I love that man to death. I'd take a bullet for him.
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We've been waiting 30 years to end the lunacy of nine demigods on the Supreme Court deciding every burning social issue of the day for us, loyal subjects in a judicial theocracy. We don't want someone who will decide those issues for us - but decide them 'our' way. If we did, a White House bureaucrat with good horse sense might be just the ticket.
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I think that if you make a strong statement of principle, even if the folks disagree with you, people will respect you for it.
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In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in.
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There are many, many difficult times, god knows. If a person wants to stand on her own two feet, I recommend undertaking the care and feeding of something. It could be children, or it could be house plants, you know? By doing that you come to understand your own limitations. That's where it starts.
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Were you to ask what are the means of overcoming temptations, I would answer: The first means is prayer; the second is prayer; the third is prayer; and you should you ask me a thousand times, I would repeat the same.
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For a person to have a contented life, they have to find something that challenges them and respond to it…
