Danny Barker Quotes
Lots of the bands in New Orleans couldn't read too much music. So they used a fiddle to play the lead - a fiddle player could read - and that was to give them some protection.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
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I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.
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I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.
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In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
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I always felt if you were going to be successful, make sure you get good people. You win with great players. Coaches don't win games. Players win games.
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Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen?
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I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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I can handle coming fifth as long as I know I've given my all out there and have no regrets.
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I shake hands on the first date.
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(Peace!) Piece of what? You can't mean P-E-A-C-E Cause I've seen people on the streets Shoot the next man and turn around and say 'peace.' But that's leaving people in pieces It's not what the meaning of peace is.
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What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock 'n' roll movies, that feature a band is that they're lip-synching.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
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Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed.
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Lots of the bands in New Orleans couldn't read too much music. So they used a fiddle to play the lead - a fiddle player could read - and that was to give them some protection.
