Elvin Jones Quotes
I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when he starts painting. And I can see different colors.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
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As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
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I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.
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When you're on a movie set and you are hopefully making a comedy, everyone's stifling their laughter. You're looking at the crew guys, hoping someone is making that face like, and not like, this is not working out, man.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different.
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We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not work against their interest but will bring an improvement in their lives.
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I'm not a good dancer, but I try. I don't really have the moves.
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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
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My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
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God knows, we don't want prayer.
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When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
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No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
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I was given some designer colors for ink pens a long time ago and I haven't used them, and I have some handmade paper, and I just have the desire to drip on wet paper. It reminds me of when I was seven years old and had my tonsils out, and one of the first artworks I made was on toilet paper with a colored pencil; it was sort of half paint and half colored pencil. But I got very involved with color and absorption and I think, you know, 78 is a good time to go back to the beginning.
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A wonderful side effect of being in a successful band is the places you go.
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But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.
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I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when he starts painting. And I can see different colors.
