Brad Mehldau Quotes
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I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
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I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
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We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.
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Whatever I think of, that's what I do. I wake up and think, 'I want to buy a car', I buy a car. I wake up and be like, 'I just want to lay in bed with my girl', I do that. I wake up and want to rap, I rap. So whatever I think of.
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Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.
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I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is.
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Vacant heart, and hand, and eye,Easy live and quiet die.
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I'm a fighter by nature and nothing will ever change that.
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One of the wonderful things about the information highway is that virtual equity is far easier to achieve than real-world equity...We are all created equal in the virtual world and we can use this equality to help address some of the sociological problems that society has yet to solve in the physical world,'
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When you get into the game you've got be thinking, when I get into the attacking third I'm gonna be freakin' creative.
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I've always looked at famous actors and hope that once they get a part that they have success in, they would reprise it every few years in the way a pop singer will reprise their hits. Like Bob Dylan singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' until he's fed up with it, finding different ways of doing it.
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I really love Celine. Obviously. Alexander Wang. Givenchy. Those are probably my main favorites. Dolce & Gabbana, too.
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A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.
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Given the number of restaurants I have, I could easily travel all the time - but I try not to.
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I prefer to write about what we refer to as 'the supernatural' versus everyday life. Humans, by themselves, bore me.
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Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.
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The very things that I would love about Barack and that you would love about Barack is that he is one of us. He's a normal guy. He's not a political animal.
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I find if my character is more glamorous, I become more conscious of what I look like.
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Some moments before you are aware of what you will do next - a time in which you subjectively appear to have complete freedom to behave however you please - your brain has already determined what you will do. You then become conscious of this 'decision' and believe that you are in the process of making it.
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The greatest gift you can give someone is the space to be his or herself, without the threat of you leaving.
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It tasted like a shade of white near blue; it tasted like the idea of pearls; it tasted like a memory nearly grasped but lost at the last moment.
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Scripture tells us that there is evil in the world, and that terrible things happen for reasons that defy human understanding. In the words of Job, 'when I looked for light, then came darkness.' Bad things happen, and we must guard against simple explanations in the aftermath.
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Owl was telling Kanga an Interesting Anecdote full of long words like Encyclopædia and Rhododendron to which Kanga wasn't listening.
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I'm not much of a storyteller with words!
