Edwin Lefevre Quotes
The beauty of doing business with a crook is that he always forgives you for catching him, so long as you don't stop doing business with him.

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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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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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Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
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The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
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If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.
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It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.
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My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
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Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.
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So many venues are owned by these various different ticketing and promoting people, and they're all in bed with one another. It's no secret over here.
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It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
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I read that when cats are cuddling and kneading you, and you think it's cute, they're really just checking your vitals for weak spots.
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I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.'
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No matter how fast I could do it with the digital camera I don't think I would get the same thing out of it. The passion I have for formulating an idea stands alone. It is the important essence of what I do.
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The most challenging thing is people do see me as a tennis player, but I've had a lot of opportunities because I am a tennis player. And I don't mind that.
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Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.
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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
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I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.
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The beauty of doing business with a crook is that he always forgives you for catching him, so long as you don't stop doing business with him.