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.Woody Shaw
Quotes to Explore
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
Eddie Charles Jones -
Never wear anything that panics the cat.
P. J. O'Rourke -
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.
Kat Graham -
I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
Hannah Simone -
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.
Olav Thon -
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.
Hamilton Jordan
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I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.
Laura Kightlinger -
I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.
K. Flay -
I love 'Glee.'
Cameron Mackintosh -
Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.
Nanci Griffith -
I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
Damien Chazelle -
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.
Octavia Spencer
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My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.
Adam Brody -
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.
Carl von Clausewitz -
It took me a long time to accept that I was a writer.
Katie Kitamura -
What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant.
James Sanborn -
I have no intention of telling people what I have for breakfast.
Princess Margaret -
I think, as an actor, you create things for your character that you think will make it more personal to you, because on the day, you want to make sure that you're truly there in the moment.
Kelly Marie Tran
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
Felix Baumgartner -
My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be editors must endure before they can ascend the ladder and begin acquiring books on their own. I spent a year filing paperwork, writing copy, and typing rejection letters.
Lincoln Child -
There are known knowns and known unknowns, but what we should be worried about most is the unknown unknowns.
Gary Marcus -
The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.
Franz Schubert -
No one can feel as the owner of the country and no one can feel excluded from the right of property. We must all suffer Colombia.
Alvaro Uribe -
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.
Woody Shaw