Wayne Shorter Quotes
I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated!
Quotes to Explore
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.
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Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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I'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with a big charge of poetry on a daily basis. I feel we've kind of lost that here in Europe.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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I can say this: You haven't lived until you've had to wear a triplet pregnancy belly. You would be amazed at what a girl can learn based on the different months of pregnancy to make her character more interesting.
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As prime minister, I changed Israel's position on peace negotiations. I made it clear that we are ready to go along with Resolution 242 of the U.N. Security Council, which specifies withdrawal to secure and recognized boundaries in the context of peace.
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Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
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I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life.
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It's important to know how to operate within the system you are existing in.
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I consider all drama to be the opportunity to see the world from another person's point of view. That seems to be the point of drama, really. And thereby to encourage understanding and even love.
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Love? he asked himself, giving no sense of recognition for that word in the dictionary of his mind. It was the only battle he had lost in life, the only thing that had been snatched away from him, before he could even claim it.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated!
