Bernie De Koven Quotes
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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I don't like to direct myself.
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I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
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As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
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I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.
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Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'
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Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did.
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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
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In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough. What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking.
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When I stepped down from the evening news at the age of 65, in '81, things were still going well. Immediately after that, the whole tenor of the CBS News Department changed.
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Whether defending our nation as a Black Hawk pilot abroad or serving our veterans and those in need at home, my life has been enriched by the opportunities I've had to serve my country and fellow citizens, both in and out of uniform.
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I'm not trying to prove that I'm capable of doing many things.
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I have to be careful not to do so many comedy airhead roles from now on. I've turned down a couple already.
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They just don’t trust people. They don’t trust individuals, they don’t trust any change that should serve and benefit people, and they try to stop it.
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Especially working with Adam Brody, he's just so funny in every day life. Working with him is a lot of fun. We play pranks on each other.
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Fun is where it's at. That's why you have to be there.
