Glenn Miller Quotes
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It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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God does arithmetic.
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But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.
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To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.
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I basically use Facebook and Twitter and MySpace to communicate with the fans. I don't think it's necessarily about advancing my career, but I do want to be able to connect with my fans. They are so important to me, and a lot of them have stuck with me since the very beginning, and that means so much to me.
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There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
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My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.
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The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.
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People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.
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'Dignity is like morality,' Mirabilis barked. 'Too much is as bad as too little.'
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My politics would be, must be, have to be, completely separate from my judgment.
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Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.
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As an economic historian, I appreciate what manufacturing has contributed to the United States. It was the engine of growth that allowed us to win two world wars and provided millions of families with a ticket to the middle class. But public policy needs to go beyond sentiment and history.
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I always have a very complex personal life as far as romance goes. Sometimes I have a little too much time to get into too much trouble... and drama. It's either I'm working, or I have nothing to do but focus on my personal life. It's a little hectic.
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I think I'm long past the days where I would go to the store and drop a couple hundred bucks on CDs, so my playlist is gonna be pretty long in the tooth.
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For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.
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Now shut the engines off. Come down and flatten out, feel the long float, and at the given moment pull the stick right home. She's down. Now taxi in. Switch off. It's over - but not quite, for the port engine, just as if it knew, as if reluctant at the last to let me go, kicked, kicked, and kicked again, as overheated engines will, then backfired with an angry snorting: Fool! The best is over ...But I did not hear.
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Til I was 10 years, I didn't know I had only two siblings. I always thought I had 10 and that they were all my family.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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Love is love. It is God-given, and a sacrament. It is not for any man to judge.
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Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.
