Beth Harbison Quotes
I was here, & now, but I was also swimming in the past, living these same motions we'd made so many times before.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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A closed mind is a dying mind.
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California is an easy place to be an Asian woman engineer.
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You know why I'm running for governor? Because everything we care about is under siege from President Donald Trump and Bruce Rauner.
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I used to love fine dining, but I lost my appetite for it to a degree because sometimes it is too much about the effort and too little about the result.
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Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.
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I used to work for a catering company - I waitressed for Harry Winston events. I remember being so hungry, I would eat when I was supposed to be catering to other people.
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I've missed being able to flip in the air, flip on the beam and swing on the bars.
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Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.
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He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presence of his father.
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This president goes into office with more expectations than any president I can ever remember in my lifetime.-2008
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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country, than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.
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Farewell! For in that word, that fatal word,-howe'erWe promise, hope, believe,-there breathes despair.
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I'm not usually absolutely speechless.
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I'll rail against what I think is wrong.
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I'm really bad at memorizing, so that's one of my big struggles in an audition setting, with the lines.
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The longer I look at something, the more my imagination churns and I can find somewhere to put it.
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I spent five years, at least, working with Miles. Together, we recorded ESP, Nefertiti, Sorcerer -- and I can tell you; each of these albums instantly became jazz classics. Hey, we had Wayne Shorter playing tenor sax, Ron [Carter] on bass, Tony Williams played drums. That was great band we had.
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The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage. We must compress into a single second what was held before in a sixty-second minute.
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May the best days of your past, be the worst days of your future.
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A thing that really troubles me about a more polarized society is that you stop having a sense of society and citizenship.
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When you're recording in the midst of touring, you get a different sense about you. Things are more rocking, darker, heavier and louder. You're thinking about the audience that you're seeing every night.
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I was here, & now, but I was also swimming in the past, living these same motions we'd made so many times before.
