Ornette Coleman Quotes
Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.
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I don't think even one per cent of the people in this world explore more than 10 per cent of all that this world has to offer. That's a shame!
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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A holiday vacation can mean sampling all kinds of new cuisine - whether it's Uncle Joe's award-winning chili or the exotic flavors of Nepal. If your little ones are fussy, be sure to ease mealtime hassles by bringing along a supply of the familiar foods they're accustomed to rejecting at home.
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We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often with the best of intentions, has tried put a personal stamp on the character, whether it be to try and make him more current, or cool, or have a broader appeal, etc.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them.
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Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
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If things look right on the surface the underside is rarely questioned. However, things may be great in reality, but if one perceives them to be amiss, it is difficult to change that perception.
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We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment.
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I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.
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Silent films weren't so different from my comics - the basic choice both offer an artist is what do you show and what do you tell.
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People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.
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Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.
