Woody Shaw Quotes
The trouble with this country is that everything is new. We don't have any consideration for the past... Just because something is old, you don't just rip it down. You can renovate it instead of ripping it down and building something new.
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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Never wear anything that panics the cat.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
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From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.
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To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.
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I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.
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People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.
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I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.
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I love 'Glee.'
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Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.
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Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
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I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
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Yes, you want to do studio movies, but I also want to grow as an actor, and an actress like me is not going to get roles where you grow and evolve in a studio film. It's just not gonna happen.
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My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.
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The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing practical to alter or deflect the impulse to destroy the enemy, which is central to the very idea of war.
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Last time I had my hands on you, you felt like a bird - struggling to escape. You'll never escape now...
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Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. 'In love-ness' is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about 'happy' and 'unhappy' marriages.
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The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.
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The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.
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I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I cross out a lot - I'm not writing in stone tablets, it's just ink on paper. I don't feel comfortable without a pen or a pencil in my hand. I can't think with my fingers on the keyboard. Words are generated for me by gripping the pen, and pressing the point on the paper.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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You never know what an artist is going to create next.
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The trouble with this country is that everything is new. We don't have any consideration for the past... Just because something is old, you don't just rip it down. You can renovate it instead of ripping it down and building something new.
