Gerry Mulligan Quotes
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I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
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The art of love is who you share it with.
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My goal is to get outs as soon as I can. Strikeouts aren't that big a deal to me.
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Cricket is not like a government job where retirement age is fixed at A cricketer can retire at 30 or 60; it's up to the player.
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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.
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With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.
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Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.
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Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation?
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Theirs is the present who can praise the past.
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Leave us to our free election.
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What I had said in the morning was that this is what we know has happened, but there has been no significant off-site release. Only to find out moments later that, in fact, there had been an off-site release. I still haven't gotten over that.
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My most earnest of all pleas to singles is abandonment of the self, surrender to Christ of all unfulfilled longings, an unequivocal willingness to receive whatever God assigns, and a determination to practice the sacrificial principle of Isaiah 58:10-11. Life becomes not only far simpler, but surprisingly joyful and free.
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Don't set your wit against a child.
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I must spin good ghosts out of my hope to oppose the hordes at my window. If those who look in see me condescend to barricade the door, they will know too much and crowd in to overcome me.
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One of the things that neoliberalism does is, it relies on flexible workforces who are hired and fired at will and who are basically disposable labor. You can use them. You can get rid of them. They have no rights; they have no security. Their lives and well-being are made and unmade at the whim of those who are exercising the calculus. So, instead of looking at the institution and objecting to that kind of organization, people just go, "I'm a failure;"; "I'm not working hard enough"; or, "I'm not as smart as the next person."
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Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.
