Ornette Coleman Quotes
You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
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I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.
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Kindness, altruistic love, and compassion are qualities that do not harmonize well with bias. Restricting the field of our compassion not only diminishes it quantitatively but also qualitatively. Applying our compassion only to certain beings, human beings in this case, makes it a lesser and a poorer thing.
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Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure that they contain words of judgment. Unless, of course, they are about sex.
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We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.
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Be curious enough to keep an open mind to what's happening around you in society. You can look at yourself and the world at the same time.
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You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
