Jake Pitts Quotes
I guess anybody who plays can say that they play guitar, but if you want to be a guitarist, you've got to practice all the time and you've got to get good at it. It's more than just having one and playing it.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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It's so lovely to know that people who you would never think know about Bollywood, they know about Bollywood.
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I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
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The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
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Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life.
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Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.
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Sports is good for health and for children, it gives them manhood, courage, teaches them team work and coordination. Sports is something that is so crucial, it makes everything.
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The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
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When you write songs, you have to like them yourself first, but then you have to make everyone else like them, because you can force them to play it, but you can't force them to like it.
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When something resonates with you, working for it seems more like play.
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Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world.
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I guess anybody who plays can say that they play guitar, but if you want to be a guitarist, you've got to practice all the time and you've got to get good at it. It's more than just having one and playing it.
