Wayne Shorter Quotes
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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
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I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.
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In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
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By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.
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There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.
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Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions.
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The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and more unattractive to higher-quality investment.
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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
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I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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I'm not a fan of being inauthentic.
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If I was a star, it would be difficult to go off and do 'Coronation Street.' So I guess I'm not a star.
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Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
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Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of not being serious, of not doing things like everyone else.
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I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.
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I can feel your heartbeat, Where I lay my head ‘Cause you’ve got me Yeah you’ve got me
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When public figures remain silent about depression, there is a cost to the rest of society. Silence contributes to the misperception that successful people do not get depressed, and it keeps the public from seeing that treatment allows many individuals to return to competitive professional lives.
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Your humanity is your instrument.
