Ornette Coleman Quotes
It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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You just have to take control of your own performance.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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I remember, around age three, peas growing in the back garden. Pinching them from their pods and popping them in the mouth was my first realisation that food came from somewhere other than a shelf.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.
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Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.
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I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.
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Compounding is the 8th wonder of the world.
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Open your eyes! The world is still intact; it is as pristine as it was on the first day, as fresh as milk!
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
