Ornette Coleman Quotes
It seems to me that in the western world, culture has something to do with appearance. A person that's out creating good stuff has got to appreciate someone when they take the time to have an appearance that goes with what they're doing.
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity.
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.
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I respect my father as a father, but I also respect him as an honorable chairman.
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The mountains of today are the molehills of tomorrow.
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When we rise out of the night into the new life and there begin to receive the signs, what can we know of that which - of him who gives them to us? Only what we experience from time to time from the signs themselves. If we name the speaker of this speech God, then it is always the God of a moment, a moment God.
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My life is good, so I ain’t worrying about it. … Well, good luck.
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Online fundraising is so important to the Democratic Party.
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It seems to me that in the western world, culture has something to do with appearance. A person that's out creating good stuff has got to appreciate someone when they take the time to have an appearance that goes with what they're doing.
