Dave Douglas Quotes
I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do.Dave Douglas
Quotes to Explore
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My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
Paloma Faith -
My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.
Oprah Winfrey -
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
A. R. Ammons -
I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
Hal Sparks -
Pre-history tells us that our species used to be a hunter-gatherer society. This means that the job of raising a family was split 50-50 between the men and the women - the man's 50 percent share was to sit in the woods with a sharp stick, waiting for something to hunt to wander by, and the woman's 50 percent was to do everything else.
W. Bruce Cameron -
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
Edmond de Goncourt
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Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.
Nathalie Sarraute -
It is a fact not to be disputed, that the aristocracy have not 'progressed ' in proportion to the other classes. A young nobleman of the present day has not a better education than his ancestor in the time of Elizabeth.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon -
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be 'damned if you do, and damned if you don't.'
Eleanor Roosevelt -
The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
Albert Schweitzer -
My one thing is respect. I don't care about anything else. You should respect everyone around you - the people who work for you, peers. Be classy.
Charli XCX -
If I were a carpenter, I'd find a way to empower using that skill. I'm using as much as God has given - my mind, my voice, my heart, my art forms. This is the highest form of expression on the planet from God, to me, to you.
Avery Brooks
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We really think of Bitcoin as a global, interoperable payment network instead of a store of value.
Jeremy Allaire -
No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
Max Planck -
I work from a deep sense of insecurity. I have the belief, and I can't shake it, that there are endless reasons to turn the channel. There are hundreds of channels and entirely other things to do besides TV. And if you make a bad television show there's no reason for the audience to come back the following week.
Chuck Lorre -
I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!
Kathryn Lasky -
I want to live 50 more years. I'm 33 years old... and I want to live to at least be 80 and see my kids grow up and see my grandkids. That's important to me.
Alonzo Mourning -
A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty.
Joseph Brodsky
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I think she always nursed a small mad hope.
Vladimir Nabokov -
Us on hard drugs? That would be horrible. We'd probably end up sounding like Bryan Adams.My girlfriend has this quote in her sketchbook: Remain orderly in your life so you can be free and chaotic in your work. I think basically you lose it when you destroy your brain or destroy yourself emotionally or burn yourself up.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace -
My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.
Jane Birkin -
I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do.
Dave Douglas