Ornette Coleman Quotes
So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask, 'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'
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The only foreplay I really need is for a guy to kiss my hip bone. The hip is the most erotic and neglected body part. Kiss the hip bone with your lips.
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I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.
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I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
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I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.
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I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit in the studio and I think, 'How am I feeling today?' and I write how I feel. It's really, really simple.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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I always tell my partners that our job is to fund all the companies we can that can be worth $10 billion or more. That's such a difficult constraint, we can't have any other constraints.
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I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
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Sometimes we all work so hard to overcome various things, and we are very cruel as a society and tough on people who we think aren't trying hard enough.
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We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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To me, romance and suspense go hand in hand. What's more suspenseful than wondering how two wonderful people can manage to get together in spite of the world going crazy around them?
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So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask, 'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'
