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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President Bush was disgusted by the Assad regime's oppression of the Syrian people as well as its support for terrorism, interference in Lebanon, and encouragement of jihadist attacks on Americans in Iraq.
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What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!
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There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.
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A universal voucher program would change the face of poverty in this country.
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I grew up listening to country music with my dad on the way to school.
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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.
