Carlos Santana Quotes
I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
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It's so hard for me to kind of fall in love with comedy, but if something comes my way... I mean, I loved 'Weird,' I thought that was a really fun character.
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I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most passionate about, which is work on music and make new songs.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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You do manage a somewhat religious attitude toward your art. It is a calling rather than a job.
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As soon as you make some films that people like, you'll be sent material, and that can come from anywhere.
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All the great shows owe a lot to 'Hill Street Blues.'
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There is now a desperate need for a London-wide left caucus of those interested in the GLC and local councils so that we can compare and discuss what is happening in each borough.
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There is no higher calling or greater privilege known to man than being involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission.
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I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
