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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Later in life, when I'm retired and have a family of my own and will be able to send my kids to college, that's when I'll start spending. Way too many athletes go broke these days, and I like saving my money so that I can ensure my family and friends currently and after me will never have to endure some of the things I did when I was a kid.
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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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Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.
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Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.
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I hated being in a convent. It's another form of power. Manipulation. Because who can say - one God for the whole universe? I think there must be millions of gods! And they're not all of them very nice.
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Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that the only flowers to be admitted to the walled garden of good taste are discreet and pastel-hued.
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Undeniably, I'm a country singer; I'm a country songwriter. But I feel like I make country music for people who like country music and for people who don't.
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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.
