Edith Durham Quotes
There is a peculiar pleasure in riding out into the unknown. A pleasure which no second journey on the same trail ever affords.
Quotes to Explore
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Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
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I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
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I don't know why the guys with the big money don't find five terrific young producers and give each of them enough to commission a musical and to live on for a year. You'd be likely to get at least one project with a future.
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The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
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Brains, you see, vary a lot from person to person - they vary as much as faces do.
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The overwhelming number of police officers in Chicago are doing good work under difficult conditions. They put their lives on the line every day in situations none of us can fully comprehend or appreciate.
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Chicago is fun. We've spent a lot of time there, about 15 years. My wife's parents and family live in Chicago, so that's a big selling point.
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My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.
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I enjoyed living in Canada, where my husband comes from, because I was treated like any ordinary person. I became a volunteer at my children's school; I went into the classroom. It was very grounding. I got sick of being famous.
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I think world creation and monster creation and all of that stuff is exciting as a secondary element of storytelling. When it becomes more important than storytelling, I get very nervous, and you sort of lose me a little bit.
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A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. So write it down.
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I most enjoy sitting down with the acoustic guitar and just fiddling around and trying to come up with something like a hook or some sort of melodic line. That's something that I do habitually.
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One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism.
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The idea that you have a vision of what you're supposed to be, or going to be, or where your kids are going to be - and that that doesn't work out - is always going to be something that's going to affect people and move people.
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A country's competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom.
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America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
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Everyone needs a spiritual guide: a minister, rabbi, counselor, wise friend, or therapist. My own wise friend is my dog. He has deep knowledge to impart. He makes friends easily and doesn't hold a grudge. He enjoys simple pleasures and takes each day as it comes. Like a true Zen master he eats when he is hungry and sleeps when he is tired. He's not hung up about sex. Best of all, he befriends me with an unconditional love that human beings would do well to imitate.
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A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced.
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A frame of adamant, a soul of fire,No dangers fright him, and no labors tire.
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There is a peculiar pleasure in riding out into the unknown. A pleasure which no second journey on the same trail ever affords.
