Pat Metheny Quotes
If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.
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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
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In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify.
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I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I believe in equality, but that's just naturally happening. I still want a door opened for me, to be treated like a lady, but I also want equal rights for women, of course.
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I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I've never considered myself to be a fashionista type of guy.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.
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As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.
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People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.
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I've always wanted to do a period piece.
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Though the S8, like all premium Samsung phones, runs Android with the basic Google suite of apps, Samsung keeps trying to duplicate Android functions with its own software. It wants to be a software platform like its rival Apple, but it uses someone else's operating system and core apps. Awkward.
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There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.
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We care about margins.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.
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My first book didn't even have a Canadian publisher. And that upset me, because I so wanted a readership up there.
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And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.
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Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.
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If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.
