Woody Herman Quotes
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I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
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I'd love to drive a Bugatti - something totally ridiculous but super fast.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
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There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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The one thing about art is you can't question it. Everyone is looking at everyone else to find out what's cool. No one knows what's cool.
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Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.
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During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot.
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I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.
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I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit.
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I have a dog. He cuddles with me all night, so I don't really need a boyfriend.
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And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.
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In the U.S., coaches could be the father next door. They had no formal training. They're like old hockey players. They don't go to school and study.
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With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.
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The singing was something I got from my father.
