Pat Metheny Quotes
I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.
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If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
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Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.
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I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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I never get recognized. Most of the time, when people think they know me, they believe I'm a member of their family. And that's the way I like it. That's just fine.
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I like salty, creamy foods. I could sit down with a bag of chips and French onion dip and go to town! That would be on my last-supper list.
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My mother and father taught me about black excellence and dynasty. They experienced racism personally, and when something like that happens to you and not around you, you develop a different perception than someone who has never experienced racism a day in their lives.
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I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.
