Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson (Champfleury) Quotes

If you would know what a cat is thinking about, you must hold its paw in your hand for a long time.

Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson

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• Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.

  

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• I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.

  

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• My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.

  

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• I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.

  

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• Pre-history tells us that our species used to be a hunter-gatherer society. This means that the job of raising a family was split 50-50 between the men and the women - the man's 50 percent share was to sit in the woods with a sharp stick, waiting for something to hunt to wander by, and the woman's 50 percent was to do everything else.

  

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• I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. … I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those He has created; and since without virtue man can have no happiness in this world, I firmly believe He delights to see me virtuous.

  

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• We're so used to financing things on our own that we always have a plan in place to sort of scale our ideas.

  

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• I have met so many of my idols - like Ray Charles, Brian Setzer - all these cats that are legendary musicians. If they had said to me, 'Hey man, I'm busy,' it would have crushed my soul.

  

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• I've had the privilege of coaching the best basketball team in the history of the world, and that's the USA national team. I've had a chance to coach them for eight years. If you were to ask me if I could end my career only coaching one team for the rest of my coaching career, I don't think it could get better than that, especially with the players that I've had during those eight years. When you've coached at that level, you know, you've coached those players, it's pretty hard to say, I would rather coach anybody else.

  

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• The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. It's like a cancer that's metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?

  

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• If you would know what a cat is thinking about, you must hold its paw in your hand for a long time.

  

  Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson
  • Thinking
  • Cat
  • Hold